FAO's Global Soil Partnership organizes its first webinar on Soil Biodiversity as part of the annual campaign dedicated to soil biodiversity with the theme “Keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity”. The webinar...

Sustainable food systems are fundamental to ensuring that future generations are food secure and eat healthy diets. Many food system activities must be reconstructed to transition towards sustainability, and myriad...

From the 15 to the 17 July 2020, the Bio-district della Via Amerina e delle Forre, in the Italian province of Viterbo, hosted the launch of the piloting process for...

CELIA and Conciencia Verde organize an online course on Agroecology and the reconstruction of post-COVID-19 agriculture from 8 to 12 June 2020. This course will be held in Spanish and will cover the following...

Argentina, where around 60 per cent of the arable land is planted with genetically-modified soya, has become one of the countries where the agribusiness model is expanding the most rapidly....

The Farmers and Rural Producers’ Organizations Mapping (FO-MAPP) was created to fill the critical information and visibility gap of farmers’ organizations. FO-MAPP is an interactive online database that provides geo-referenced information on...

This report begins to address the vast gap in knowledge about the roles and experiences of women in extensive livestock management systems in Spain. Throughout recent history, women’s roles in...

Since 2006, Terre & Humanisme and its local partners have been training agroecology facilitators in several West African countries, the Mediterranean region and France. These facilitators in turn support farmers'...

This online course, launched by the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) and the French National Institute of Higher Education in Agricultural Science, Montpellier SupAgro, shows what agroecology is, what the different approaches are...

The work of rural women is often invisible. Their contributions to the households – in terms of both housework and raising children as well as their work in agriculture and...

Every year hundreds of farmers transform their production into ecological agriculture. The transitional period, during which they introduce organic farming techniques on the farm, is what it is known as transition...

In a high-level meeting, State Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur discussed the "Sustainable Food Systems Mechanism" as an alternative to developing an effective marketing mechanism in Himachal Pradesh, India. In...

The First draft of the Policy Recommendation on Agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition of Committee on World Food...

The Initiative for the Central African Forests (CAFI) supports strategic, holistic and country-level REDD+ and Low Emission Development investments while focusing on Central African high-forest cover countries. Its objective is to...

The focus of the forum will be on discussing and supporting integrative policies that emphasize long-term productivity, greater resource-use efficiency, enhanced ecological functions, improved resilience, restoration of soils, promotion of...

The Province of Buenos Aires launched an institutional initiative called "Alimentos Bonaerenses", made up of six comprehensive programs aimed at strengthening food production and productive development, especially focused on small...

This edition of LEISA presents articles on responses to climate change, addressing the importance of integrated management of significant ecosystems, and the need to conserve the biodiversity of agroecosystems, and...

This handbook aims to provide land activist groups with hope and inspiration and systematic, hands-on practical knowledge about various approaches and strategic options based on real, successful stories and experiences....

European farmers are faced with increasing challenges, including climate change. Agro-ecological practices can help them develop more sustainable and resilient farming systems that combine stable yields with enhanced biodiversity and...

Markets are where food producers and consumers meet. They are a vital connection between our food and our planet. Markets are where food is traded and where ideas and cultures...