Today’s farms and ranches produce abundant food, fiber, and fuel, yet many also contribute to air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, public health problems, and other societal challenges....
A movement is growing. While agroecology has been practiced for millennia in diverse places around the world, today we are witnessing the mobilisation of transnational social movements to build, defend...
“If you have a healthy, living soil, you have healthy plants and healthy people. These three things are closely linked.” Irene Cardoso, a professor of soil science at the Federal...
In semi-arid cropping regions of West Africa, fallow periods are getting shorter. As land becomes more scarce, farmers are not able to give their soils enough time to rest. This...
The study shows a comparative analysis between agroecological and conventional farms in Benito Juarez, Buenos Aires (Argentina). The research shows the evolution of direct costs per hectare and gross margin...
Healthy soils contribute to resilient food production. Soil carbon is a key to healthy soils. Today we see the long-term consequences of agricultural management that have neglected soil carbon –...
The dosage effects of phosphorous applications on yield of maize and chickpea under mono-cropping and intercropping systems were investigated using Jiang-Gu inorganic phosphorus fractionation method in irrigated sierozems in the...
Like in many other parts of the world, the Netherlands is a country with two realities. On the one hand, for decades policies have been pushing for further industrialisation of...
November 2015: The AgriCultures Network presents ten inspiring agroecological initiatives throughout Asia and the Pacific. Some have long existed, other have just started. They connect the rural and urban worlds,...
November 2015: On the 5th and 6th of this month, a unique Africa-wide seminar on agroecology took place in Dakar, Senegal. We are proud to present 7 inspiring agroecological initiatives...
Conventional crop protection with pesticides has limitations such as resistance of pests to pesticides and faunal imbalance. Agroecological crop protection is an attractive alternative based on the principles of agroecology....
This article is the Preface of the virtual issue Agroecological Engineering, published in the journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development (www.springer.com/journal/13593) of the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (http://www.inra.fr/en). "Bring...
A movement is growing. While agroecology has been practiced for millennia in diverse places around the world, today we are witnessing the mobilisation of transnational social movements to build, defend...
AGRUCO, es un centro universitario de excelencia en investigación participativa revalorizadora, formación posgradual e interacción social con comunidades indígenas, originarias campesinas y municipios que pertenece a la Facultad de Ciencias...
In September 2015, family farmer Jyoti Fernandes spoke at a Policy Debate in the European Parliament. The video is embedded below and a full transcript of the talk is available...
This video explores the different perspectives of food providers on agroecology and the calls from social movements to embed agroecoogy in the struggle for food sovereignty. It focuses on the...
On his experimental farm in Artemisa Province, La Finca Marta, Funes-Monzote embraces a movement to cultivate “agroecology” in Cuba. This method of sustainable farming, he believes, may be the best...
For many years, La Vía Campesina and GRAIN have been telling the world about how the agroindustrial food system causes half of all greenhouse gas emissions. But the world's governments...
OCLA es una organización de carácter regional, que interactúa y potencia actividades conjuntas con otras Sociedades y organizaciones involucradas en la promoción de la agroecología.
SOCLA promueve la creación de...
