Agronomic practices and management decisions can have a significant impact on the type and number of weeds on a farm. Understanding this relationship can help organic producers manage weeds through...
Schola Campesina is a training and participatory research centre seeking to strengthen producers’ organizations in their struggle for food sovereignty through knowledge valorization and sharing. Based on the Nyéléni International...
Permaculture is a holistic approach to agriculture that provides for human needs—high-quality food, fiber, fuel, medicine and building materials—while enhancing the ecosystems and communities from which these derive; it offers...
In 2005, we began experimenting with SRI methods at Al-Mishkhab Rice Research Station (MRRS) in Najaf. With SRI practices, roots grow larger and deeper and do not degenerate for lack...
In small and remote villages in South Asia, our rich agricultural crop/breed diversity and associated knowledge is slowly getting wiped out and is being replaced by a handful of `high...
This report compiles analyses of the situation for new farmers and their access to land in Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Romania and the United Kingdom. It also presents a number...
Agronomic practices and management decisions can have a significant impact on the type and number of weeds on a farm. Understanding this relationship can help organic producers manage weeds through...
Traditional Chiloé island agriculture is a highly integrated and self-sufficient system. It relies on the agrobiodiversity supported by traditional agricultural practices to efficiently use natural resources from the sea, forest...
The Food Ethics Council magazine made a collection of articles that addresses key questions about how the research agenda is set in food and farming, that unmasks and challenges the dominant...
In many regions of Canada, the footprint of agriculture is increasing. This often results in excessive losses of wildlife habitat and biodiversity, increases in GHG emissions and carbon losses, and...
This Right to Food and Nutrition Watch - the flagship publication of the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition - issues explores the impacts of dematerialization, digitalization and...
This article examines the emerging phenomenon of markets for ‘agroecological’ products and ask two fundamental questions: 1) Do they exist?; and 2) What forms do they take? Based on a...
The seminar/webinar will give a brief overview of the urbanisation process in the Caribbean. Examples of urban agriculture in the Caribbean will be presented and include possible ways for encouraging...
This website from the Oakland Insitute collects thirty-three case studies on the success of agroecological agriculture in Africa.
They demonstrate with facts and figures how an agricultural transformation respectful of the...
Producing on-farm fertilizers based on local organic residues is an empowering action for family farmers. For this reason, we conducted the project “Development of alternative fertilizers to support the agroecological...
Using figures published by the UK Department of International Development (DFID), this study finds that despite overwhelming evidence in favour of agroecology as a mode of agricultural development able to...
The “dynamic agroforestry” method (DAF) is an innovative progression of agricultural cultivation combined with agroforestry. The method is based on the knowledge of the indigenous peoples of Latin America structured...
This is a summary note on the CALAO (Capitalization of stakeholder experience for the development of resilient agro-ecological techniques in West Africa) Project.
CALAO's goail is to make the following available...
Agriculture in Europe results in the production of food for both the European population and for the export sector. Significant environmental and social problems have emerged with the intensification of...
