El presente documento es en una guía operativa que recoge la experiencia vivida durante el proceso de desarrollo de la Escuela nacional de agroecología (ENA) impulsadas por Heifer Ecuador, con...
Legume-cereal inter-cropping can improve nitrogen (N) use efficiency and crop yields. Numerous attempts have been made to examine the effects of legume-cereal intercropping patterns in upland and dry fields. However,...
The joint FAO/UNEP workshop on Sustainable Value Chains for Sustainable Food Systems was organized by the Sustainable Food Systems Programme and held on 8–9 June 2016 at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.
The...
The experience of the Shashe community in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe, is a microcosm of the broader vision of La Via Campesina (LVC). Shashe is a community of peasant farmers who...
Las Kuatras Marias farm is located in San Narcisso village, near Victoria City in Oriental Mindoro, Philippines, where rice monoculture is the main source of income for family farmers in...
Rice is the Philippines’ most important food crop and a staple food in most of the country. It is produced by two million farmers in four million hectares of land....
OPEN FARMS follows the story of modern technology and open data transforming Tuckaway Farm in Lee, New Hampshire, USA.
Dorn Cox says that every modern farm should be a research farm,...
The Adivasi communities of Odisha, India, have experienced substantial losses of many natural resources from their area, which are key elements ensuring their food and livelihood security. Many farmers from...
The primary obstacle to sustainable food security is an economic model and thought system, embodied in industrial agriculture, that views life in disassociated parts, obscuring the destructive impact this approach...
Timor-Leste is a half Island country with a total population of 1.2 million people; it is geographically situated between Asia and the Pacific region. It is a tropical country and...
Las Granjas Regenerativas, una iniciativa conjunta de Rancho Ecológico Vía Orgánica, Main Street Project, Regeneración Internacional y la Asociación de Consumidores Orgánicos, es la primera granja de Latinoamérica en utilizar el...
The elemental composition of a subcellular compartment, cell, tissue or organism is termed as ionome, which involves of all mineral elements of life, regardless of chemical forms these occur. Ionome...
Legitimacy is at the heart of knowledge politics surrounding agriculture and food. When people accept industrial food practices as credible and authoritative, they are consenting to their use and existence....
Modern agroecosystems require systemic change, but new redesigned farming systems will not emerge from simply implementing a set of practices (rotations, composting, cover cropping, etc.) but rather from the application of already...
Azucena Cabrera, responsible for the Rancho Ecológico Vía Orgánica introduces in this video the functions of flowers in the context of health and biodiversity preervation in our market gardens.
Burkina Faso ranks as the sixth poorest country in the world according to the 2015 UN Human Development Report. Recent studies estimate that 46.4% of the population in the Eastern...
Introducción a las "Granjas regenerativas", un proyecto localizado en las afueras de San Miguel de Allende, México, pionero en la implantación del Sistema de agricultura Regenerativa Centrada en Aves desarrollado...
Con motivo de las actividades y debates promovidos por el Gobierno Federal en el Mes de la Mujer, el MDA llevó a cabo un mini documental. El video muestra el...
This paper is an appeal to policymakers to recognize a new narrative for agriculture in Africa, which redirects efforts from a high input industrial strategy to supporting food and agricultural...
Malawi is a small landlocked country in southern Africa, bordered by Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. The majority of Malawians are smallholder farmers, who grow crops for both food and income....
