The report “State of Land in the Mekong Region” was launched today in Vientiane, Lao PDR. The first publication of its kind in the Mekong Region, it brings together key...

La Agroecología puede ser inscripta dentro de un nuevo paradigma de las ciencias agropecuarias desde el cual generar y/o validar prácticas que promuevan el uso de los recursos naturales a...

Both the IPCC and IPBES claim that a “transformative” change that can still reverse the catastrophic trends through an agroecological approach. Within this context, this fact sheet, elaborated by the Institute for Agriculture...

Conventional potato cultivation in Germany costs €1298/hectare in ground water pollution alone. For organic potato production the cost on ground water pollution decreases to €0.4/hectare. Showing how taxation can be...

This publication of the Women Constituency of Civil Society Mechanism for relation with the CFS intends to inform CSM Women positions towards the current CFS Policy Process on Agroecology and...

By 2050, the world could experience a fragility in their soils so alarming that no seed will have enough strength to grow. The result, then, will be shortages and famine in countries...

Feeding and nourishing a growing and changing global population in the face of rising numbers of chronic hunger, slow progress on malnutrition, environmental degradation, systemic inequality, and the dire projections...

Agro-ecological bases for the adaptation of agriculture to climate change. Although many indigenous and peasant populations are particularly exposed to the impacts of climate change and are vulnerable, many communities are actively responding...

The latest IPCC report sets the objective of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, 2070 at the latest. The sustainable intensification of agricultural production, in a land sparing logic, is most...

Urban agriculture (UA) has been bolstered as a major sustainable alternative to enhance food security on an urbanized planet. Although it has been estimated that UA can provide 15–20% of...

FAN was born out of the need to regularly inform a wide range of stakeholders about aquaculture development, especially in developing countries, to disseminate news about the many and diverse FAO field projects, and to inform about...

Agriculture is of undeniable importance in the Kingdom of Morocco. Its economic and social weight, its affiliation to the rural world, as well as the diversity of its functions in...

This article traces the SDG process regarding the industrial agriculture and Agroecology, from vision, through goals to indicators; more precisely indicator 2.4.1: “Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable...

Sustainable food production through the principles of agroecology implies several simultaneous transitions at different scales, levels, and dimensions, of a social, biological, economic, cultural, institutional, political nature. To describe these...

Case studies compiled recently by Global Forest Coalition (GFC) members and allies in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Paraguay underline the role of agribusiness in peasant farmers´ and Indigenous Peoples´ lives....

A la veille des résultats des élections législatives, nous verrons comment l'Inde est un laboratoire d'initiatives écologiques, notamment dans le domaine de l'agriculture. Même si le modèle dominant reste l'agro-chimie,...

The Map of Agroecology Knowledge and Practice is a technological platform that allows the mapping and exchange of Agroecological experiences in order to bring people (in every nook and cranny,...

The group ‘’Jornada de Agroecología’’ composed by a wide range of actors committed to agroecology celebrate this event for defending a land free of transgenics and no pesticides. The care of...

As support for agroecology grows around the world, an urgent question spanning our field’sscientific, practical, and movement dimensions is how agroecology can “scale” to includemorepeople in more places in fair,...

Agricultural practices contribute considerably to emissions of greenhouse gases. So far, knowledge on the impact of organic compared to non-organic farming on soil-derived nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) emissions...