With the help of multiple partners, FAO has developed a global analytical framework for the multidimensional assessment of the performance of agroecology: Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE), which aims...
This new online modeling tool - PARCEL (for Promoting resilient, civic local food systems) - was conceived as an engagement tool, to enable consumers, citizens, inhabitants, civil society organizations, and...
On Friday 8 March 2019, FAO organized a Technical Seminar on “Agroecology in extensive mixed farming systems: similar productivity, lower costs and increased resilience”. In implementing the “Scaling up Agroecology Initiative”, FAO...
Nature et Progrès is one of the oldest PGS in the world, active since 1972. From the beginning, this French association has involved a number of stakeholders and pioneers of...
This brief examines FAO’s Agroecology process (starting from FAO’s First International Symposium on Agroecology in 2014) highlighting the opportunities, challenges and risks for civil society, donors, academics and other actors,...
Duhaje Jennings is the owner of Dada B's, the largest supplier of bee colonies in the English-speaking Caribbean. He helps to facilitate the effort of demand for apicultural products by...
The food system of Fez in Morocco faces many challenges: profession of devalued farmer and difficult living conditions leading to a significant phenomenon of rural exodus, significant use of chemicals...
The main aim of the conference is to engage with key policy makers and stakeholders, including from the government at central and local levels, parliament, development partners, civil society, private...
Bees, butterflies, and other insects are under attack by the very plants they feed on as U.S. agriculture continues to use chemicals known to kill. America’s agricultural landscape is now 48...
The short film “What is Agroecology” won the Global Youth Video Contest on Climate Change - TVEBioMovies 2019, co-organized by the GEF-UNDP Small Grants Programme, and the secretariats of the...
The Iranian food system faces several challenges, threatening the food security of the inhabitants and contributing to the depletion of resources: international economic sanctions leading to inflation and unprecedented price...
El concepto de Soberanía Alimentaria fue desarrollado por La Vía Campesina (LVC) y llevado al debate público con ocasión de la celebración del Foro Mundial por la Seguridad Alimentaria, evento...
This article traces how ‘agroecology’ is co-produced as a global socio-technical object. The site of co-production, the Global Dialogue on Agroecology, was convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of...
Sfax, second city of Tunisia, is considered as the economic pole of the country. Its economic dynamism and its open port on the Mediterranean give it a place of choice...
The realization that transformative change is needed creates space for hope. It means that this is a time also ripe with possibility and opportunity. It means we must seize the...
El Viernes 8 de Noviembre renombrados expertos nacionales e internacionales se encontraron en el Centro Cultural Rector Ricardo Rojas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires para participar en un Seminario-Coloquio...
We present a method for calculating the Acute Insecticide Toxicity Loading (AITL) on US agricultural lands and surrounding areas and an assessment of the changes in AITL from 1992 through...
