Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) is a form of agricultural system redesign being practiced at scale in India, particularly in the state of Andhra Pradesh. ZBNF is an emerging set of agricultural practices designed dramatically to reduce farmers' direct costs (hence ‘zero budget’) while boosting yields and farm health through...

In response to the confluence of ecological, economic, and social crises associated with colonial and neocolonial food systems, agroecology and sustainable food systems education initiatives that develop participants' capacities for systems thinking, multi-, inter-and trans-disciplinary collaboration, community-based learning, and collective action projects have emerged in institutes of higher education and...

Land politics – who controls what land, how is it used, for how long, for what purposes and to whose benefit – is a central pillar of the debate on agroecological transition in Europe. This policy report argues that it is time to ground land policy in collective action and democratic...

This policy brief is one in a series led by Chulalongkorn University (CU) with support from the Office of the Higher Education Commission (OHEC), Ministry of Education, Thailand, in partnership with FAO. The series was initiated to support the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Work-Plan on Education - AWPE, 2016-2020...

Union of Land Workers (UTT) (Argentina) is organizing small-scale farmers and peasants to produce fruits and vegetables without pesticides and within a fair-trade framework. The union formed 10 years ago now includes 10 000 families producing food on their own to sell at fair prices at more than 200 locations...

This technical brief on fall armyworm (FAW) management from the lens of farmer field schools (FFS) outlines successes from previous projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Different control methods and traditional recipes for fall armyworm management are highlighted. Through FAW-related FFS programmes in Africa, several options for mechanical and biological control and...