Agroecology Newsletter of March 2020

The green revolution raised Vietnamese farmers' awareness converted their natural farming methods into conventional agriculture using short-term rice and vegetable hybrids and intensive inputs of agrochemicals. Unfortunately, Vietnamese society nowadays...

Agroecology Newsletter of May 2020

TAPE is being used to establish a baseline on the status of agroecological transitions for a GEF project aiming at improving resilience, productivity and sustainability of crops and animal husbandry in the region.

The fourth live of the series “Revisiting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at Embrapa"  will discuss Food security and nutrition, food sovereignty and the connection with the achievement of the Sustainable Development...

The National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) of Argentina organize a cycle of webinars through instagram. Pablo Adrian Tittonell and Francisco Rodrigo Tizon will discuss on the 10 Elements of Agroecology of FAO...

The Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) is a new terminology specifically introduced in order to promote nature to provide solutions to the challenges of mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The concept of...

Agroecology Newsletter of July 2020

There is increasing interest in agroecology to move toward more sustainable agriculture and food systems. However, the evidence of agroecology's contribution to sustainability remains fragmented because of heterogeneous methods and...

During a convention organized by the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), international experts endorsed the significant efforts to boost agroecological and natural farming approaches in India. NITI Aayog highlighted the...

This activity is part of the South-South cooperation project called “Sembrando Capacidades”, whose objective is to improve differentiated public policies for peasant, family and community agriculture in Colombia, through the...

A project that has made a difference in the lives of thousands of people living in the semi-arid region of Bahia, helping to produce and even export the most adapted...

Nature already mitigates a significant measure of human-made GHG emissions; approximately a quarter of these emissions are absorbed by trees, plants, and soil, while another quarter is absorbed into marine systems....

The Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention aims to continue during November, reinforcing its parties' technical capacities through a series of virtual training on pesticide risk assessment, severely hazardous pesticide formulations...

Agroecology started to amplify agroecology in Nicaragua in the 1980s and was translated into national policy in 2011. Using the Multi-Level Perspective on sustainability transitions (MLP), this paper explores whether...

This paper analyzes the experience of the Salvadoran cooperative movement in pursuing a political project for the institutionalization of agroecology in the years 2008–2018, under two consecutive FMLN governments in...

This document presents the concept of the circular economy in the field of agriculture in Indonesia, linking sustainable development, circularity, and the agricultural sector, using innovative case studies. The circular economy...

Agroecology incorporates a more environmentally linked and more socially sensitive approach to agriculture, focused not only on production but also on the ecological sustainability of the production system. Regarding classical...

This video, produced by the French TV channel "Arte", showcases the high-performance seeds used in the food industry and monoculture are a threat to the diversity of our varieties of...

Biovision Foundation, CIDSE, IPES-Food, AgroecologyNow! at the Center for Agroecology Water and Resilience (CAWR) of Coventry University, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Coalition Contre la Faim, DanChurchAid, are presenting a webinar on  “Shifting European Finance towards Food System...