This video was developed by the Coalition on Agroecology for the United Nations Food Systems Summit. It highlighted the essential role of adopting agroecological practices to ensure global food security....
Women farmers in the hill State of Himachal Pradesh are gradually turning to non-chemical, low cost “natural farming”, which has not only provided them with a sustainable livelihood but also...
Solving the problem of hunger and malnutrition, producing and guaranteeing access to healthy food, preserving the environment, valuing local cultures, and ensuring citizen participation are some of the challenges that...
This session presents preliminary findings of ongoing research on the experiences of agroecological entrepreneurs in Africa conducted by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and the Agroecology Fund (AEF)....
This policy paper proposes to mainstream agroecology into the European Union (EU) food systems' policies. It builds on the consensual vision of a coalition of EU civil society, farmers, and...
Over the last few years, much has been said about the role of women in the rural environment as one of the pillars that support day-to-day life in Spain. Although...
The co-organizers of the Community of Practice on Family Farming and Agroecology in Latin America and the Caribbean are presenting a Capacity Building Program to contribute to the transformation of...
Agroecological food systems will not achieve optimal performance if farming systems are constituted exclusively of small-scale units. Mechanisms for scaling up are essential. This session explored how and why the state...
Besides the severe health crisis, the COVID-19 epidemic also caused the global economy to contract at a rate not seen since the Second World War and led to a severe...
As COVID-19 threatens farming communities across Africa already struggling with climate change, the continent is at a crossroads. Will its people and their governments continue trying to replicate industrial farming...
It is widely recognized that a radical transformation of food and agriculture systems is urgently needed in order to address converging social, economic, health and ecological crises. The potential of...
On March 9 and 10 at 8h Columbia/10 h Brazil, the trilateral South-South cooperation project ''Sembrando Capacidades'' held the international seminar ''Agroecology, family farming and Sustainable Development Goals: public policies...
The purpose of this issues paper (update #3), requested by the Chairperson of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in 2020 and updated further in 2021, is to provide...
By putting farmers at the heart of the learning and innovation process, FAO’s Farmer Field Schools (FFS) empower people, households, and communities and help restore ecosystems. The discovery-learning process in...
The global social and ecological crisis is becoming increasingly complex, and the need for social transformation is emerging. This article uses a combination of a narrative case study and discourse...
In rangelands and grasslands, land degradation has an immediate and local impact by disrupting ecosystems from functioning, threatening livelihoods and negatively affecting social cohesion. It also threatens productivity while dovetailing...
This video tells the story of Sireesha - one of the thousands of women and men farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India, practicing agroecology in Farmer Field Schools facilitated by the...
