How can civil society support community-based organizing that puts ways of knowing and being at the heart of food systems change? Drawing upon a collaboration between two non-profit organizations and a community-based network of rural women across Bangladesh, this essay explores frictions and contradictions that trouble our efforts to co-create...

This manual on the agroecological production of vegetables provides the required information for the transition to agroecological production systems and healthy ecosystems. The manual offers an analysis of challenges faced in the production of vegetables in Kenya which aims to accelerate agroecological vegetable production by providing information on suitable approaches...

This dossier takes a broad approach that addresses the interconnectedness of current global food and agricultural systems crises. It brings together leading experts and thinkers on the food crisis such as Jennifer Clapp and Raj Patel, in dialogue with practitioners and activists like Million Belay of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in...

Using multi-stakeholder platforms offers a promising approach for sharing agricultural innovation, reducing transaction costs, and catalyzing development through stimulating stakeholder engagement in the innovation process to accelerate food systems transformation. Agriculture-related multi-stakeholder platforms (AMSPs) are major players to intervention strategies of agricultural development programs. However, AMSPs face multiple challenges that...

This article describes the transformative potential of agroecology as a beacon of hope for reestablishing balance in Ghana’s cocoa-forest mosaic landscapes. Agroecology — rooted in the principles of ecological harmony and sustainable agriculture — offers a way to revive and restore biodiversity, empower farmers and ensure a resilient and thriving...

The Centre for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry(CIFOR-ICRAF) Measuring Agroecology Performance (MAP) project assessed the performance of agroecology within the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)’s ProSilience project in four African countries – Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Madagascar using the FAO Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE), a four-step process that entails describing the system...