Local food initiatives with agroecological approaches are increasingly recognized. The global pandemic's challenge is alerting communities to the importance of being self-sufficient and resilient. Overall, farmers are thriving during the pandemic by making appropriate adaptations while urban consumers moved towards 'growing own food' and 'buying local'. This issue of the Low-External-Input...

On March 9 and 10 at 8h Columbia/10 h Brazil, the trilateral South-South cooperation project ''Sembrando Capacidades'' held the international seminar ''Agroecology, family farming and Sustainable Development Goals: public policies in Latin America''. The virtual seminar sought to disseminate and promote the exchange of experiences of Latin American countries in terms...

Rural women are a huge part of the agricultural workforce. Female farmers often play a central role in caring for the family diet, with access to healthier, diversified and nutritious food. This video playlist of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements presents the stories of women contributing to organic across the...

Agroecology Newsletter of February 2021.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN-Habitat Urban-Rural Linkages project aims to exchange information and learn from the efforts of different actors to overcome this crisis and enhance post-crisis recovery actions by bringing a focus to urban-rural linkages and integrated territorial approaches. For this purpose, UN-Habitat is hosting the...

The results of 12 years of comparative farming systems research in Kenya, Bolivia, and India provide scientific evidence on organic and conventional systems' economic and ecological sustainability. They illustrate how organic systems and other agroecological approaches can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.  The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development...