Representatives of small farmers, agricultural and food workers, fishing communities and fish workers, pastoralists, Indigenous Peoples, consumers, NGOs, women and youth, representing CSOs at the local, regional, national and international...

The International Symposium on Agroecology for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems has been jointly organized by FAO and CAAS, and the People’s Government of Yunnan Province of China, with the...

El incremento de las temperaturas, la extinción de la flora y fauna silvestres, el aumento del nivel del mar, las sequías, las inundaciones, las enfermedades vinculadas al calor y las...

The article shares some of the most compelling insights from a four days Learning Exchange gathering in Uganda, facilitated by the AgroEcology Fund and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in...

Higher temperatures, wildlife extinction, rising sea levels, droughts, floods, heat-related diseases and economic losses are among the consequences of climate change. Climate change disproportionally affects the poorest and most marginalized...

In Vietnam rice is grown on 85% of cultivated land. Annual paddy (unmilled) rice production grew from 19.2 million metric tons in 1990 to 42.4 million metric tons by 2011,...

Roland Bunch’s work with indigenous Mayan farmers in the highlands of Guatemala in the 1970s enabled the Campesino a Campesino (farmer-to-farmer) movement to sweep through Mexico, Central America and Cuba...

Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) is a set of farming methods, and also a grassroots peasant movement, which has spread to various states in India. It has attained wide success...

Actinomycetes were isolated from sugarcane soils by improved Gao’s No.1 synthetic medium. Physiological and biochemical characteristics, molecular identification and phylogenetic analysis were carried out on 29 isolates selected by morphology....

Red H Farm is located in Sebastopol, California on the western coast of the United States of America. Red H Farm is owned and operated by Caitlin Hachmyer, a 32-year...

The Farmer to Farmer Agroecology Movement (MACAC) is a grassroots movement inside of the Cuban National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), which is a member of the international peasant movement,...

Sugarcane-maize intercropping is an important planting pattern in sugarcane production areas. This practice favors sugarcane production, improves land use efficiency and decreases the need for pesticide use. However, the effects...

One of the projects of The Senegalese Association for the Promotion of Organic Agriculture (ASPAB) is called ‘Domestication and improvement of tree species in the department of Thiès’. The aim...

The history of diversified cropping can be dated back to the era of man’s evolution that followed hunting and gathering, and this form of cropping has stood the test of...

This compendium of best practices brings together practical ecologically sound and nutrition-sensitive approaches to improving the productivity of backyard, community, and family farms.  It has four main sections: 1. The first section...

In this chapter, we first examine key concepts that are relevant to understanding the links between biodiversity and ecosystem services. We then review the relationship between biodi-versity and ecosystem services,...

Considerable controversy continues to exist in scientific and policy circles about how to tackle issues of global hunger, malnutrition, and rural economic decline, as well as environmental issues, such as...

This guide is intended to serve as the basis for the implementation of the Innovative Agro-ecology component of the GEF Small Grants Programme in its 6th Operational phase, and to...

Experiencias en el diseño de una agricultura sustentable. Con el Profesor Miguel Altieri, PhD (Universidad de California, Berkeley) www.agroeco.org

Abstract. The recent interest in multi-functional agricultural landscapes has not been matched with formal assessment of the roles that trees play across the spectrum of ecosystem services (ESs) provided in...