Once the scene of devastating droughts in 1984, a few visionaries in Ethiopia have used Agroecological Natural Technology Solutions and Permaculture Design principles to begin bringing areas of arid land...
Large, decimated ecosystems can be restored. Bringing large areas back from environmental ruin is possible, and the results are key to stabilizing the earth's climate, eradicating poverty and making sustainable...
In this edition of LEISA 29-1, experiences of application of the System of Intensive Rice Cultivation (SICA), an innovative technology successfully adopted in different countries around the world where this...
Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
Black Gold: the Secrets of Compost was filmed on location in Swaziland, and is the first in the Living Classroom series.
The Living Classroom is the result of GardenAfrica’s training programmes...
Agri-environmental measures are considered the main tool available to stop the loss of biodiversity associated with the intensification of agriculture. However, the question of whether or not they constitute an...
The work analyzes the importance of plant diversity in agroecosystems and the effects of the intensification of agricultural and landscape practices on plant diversity. The review of several studies carried...
The development of breeding strategies that link biodiversity and crop production and regulation services is compulsory when it comes to promoting a low-input agriculture (which includes organic farming). In low-input...
We used coffee farming households as units of analysis to synthetize agrobiodiversity data in agricultural plots managed by coffee cooperative members of Nicaragua and El Salvador. Surveys, focus groups and...
Agricultural intensification during the last decades has caused a remarkable decline in the populations of birds that breed in European agro-ecosystems. In Spain, this process is affecting species closely related...
Biological conservation control is positioning itself as an alternative to the use of synthetic chemical pesticides to control pest arthropod populations. The use of this strategy is aimed at increasing...
Video que describe la situación de la agricultura familiar en Argentina, en el marco del Encuentro del MERCOSUR Ampliado: Máquinas y Herramientas para la Agricultura Familiar.
The importance of agroecological-based management practices has been widely discussed in the literature. The relationship between those practices and the regulatory services in agroecosystems is an essential contribution to the...
In 2010, the Centre for Agroecology and Food Security (CAFS) was established to undertake applied research and education on agroecology as the underlying paradigm of sustainable agriculture. This approach is...
Phenomenon based learning provides a platform and logic to establish bridges between academia and society. The phenomenon based learning in farms and communities has provided the basis for an agroecology...
Reflection on politics done from the field of agroecology is scarce. However, the wide range of agroecological movements and experiences taking place at several levels of public administration suggest that...
This paper examines the origin and impacts of agricultural modernization in relation to the social basis of agroecology as a science and social agrarian movement. The impact of capitalism in...
This paper reviews the processes for bilateral equivalence arrangements concluded in the past several years between Canada and the United States, Canada and the European Union, and the European Union...
This Guide has been developed to assist in the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National...
Nowadays, agroecology is clearly focused on bringing about sustainability to food, concentrates and fibers’ production. However, a bigger picture of major social, economic and social drivers that move food systems...
