EU Partnerships are a new and ambitious instrument in Horizon Europe, the EU’s 9th Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (R&I). With ERA-Nets (including ERA-Net CORE Organic) and JPIs ending...
The triple threat of climate change, COVID-19, and conflict is revealing the inherent fragility of food systems worldwide along with their negative impacts on natural resources as well as their prominent role in worsening...
Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 76/166, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, examines the emerging issues concerning the realization of the right to food in the...
Agroecology enables the improvement of agricultural production through the enhancement of local natural resources and traditional know-how. It contributes to maintaining biodiversity and restoring land in drylands, which are particularly...
The terms 'regenerative agriculture' and 'nature-based solutions' have gained prominence in policy and funding spaces related to food systems. Global policy fora like the UN Food Systems Summit and the...
The global impacts of the climate crisis are becoming ever clearer, and natural resources and ecosystems are being depleted. Despite some progress, hunger and poverty persist, and inequalities are deepening....
Despite the substantial progress made in spreading the knowledge about soil biodiversity and its functions, only around 1% of soil organisms have been identified so far. Moreover, soil biodiversity loss...
In order to meet the challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preserving biodiversity, and improving animal welfare, public health, and the rights of farmers, while ensuring food security and sovereignty,...
Ecosystem restoration has the potential to significantly contribute to reversing biodiversity loss, supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation, and increasing societal well-being, including gender equality. This policy brief provides the lessons...
In West Africa, many organisations had interventions on sustainable agriculture, but each one was working in isolation. In 2015, the JAFOWA program was born, whereby several organisations, foundations and NGOs...
In 2000, the International Pollinator Initiative (IPI) was established (COP decision V/5, section II) at the Fifth Conference of Parties (COP V) as a cross-cutting initiative to promote the sustainable...
The Food Safety and Society (FSS) program focuses on social justice and social change in food systems and society and
Learning objectives are to:
Explain concepts, theories, and processes of social justice...
Agroecology builds biodiversity into agriculture and food systems and should be a focus of global biodiversity conservation efforts as if lives and nature depend on it – because they do.
The world’s...
This online course organized by the Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA for its acronym in Spanish), seeks to investigate the social processes of agroecology in the context of the current...
The Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology (TPP), together with co-hosts CIFOR-ICRAF, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Swedish International Agriculture Network Initiative (SIANI), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and United Nations...
In order to meet the challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preserving biodiversity, and improving animal welfare, public health, and the rights of farmers, while ensuring food security and sovereignty,...
On August 9th, the International Day of the World's Indigenous People is commemorated. This year, the day focuses on the theme "The Role of Indigenous Women in the Preservation and...
Pollinators are essential for fruit, vegetable, oilseed, and forage production, as well as for the production of seed for many root and fibre crops. In addition to being essential to...
Throughout these 30 years, the political proposals of La Via Campesina have remained valid and more relevant than ever, and peasants play a fundamental role in Food Sovereignty, in the...
