The need to ensure farmers’ livelihoods and welfare as well as national food security urges decision-makers to effectively tackle the challenges posed by climate change. Understanding how climate change affects...

This brief identifies entry points within agri-food systems to improve biodiversity and diets, two levers that can be used to enhance nutrition and optimize environmental sustainability while ensuring social equity,...

The Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation promotes initiatives focused on sustainable food and citizen art, aiming to explore new ways of transition and structuring social action towards a more just,...

The Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP)'s Training Center for Sustainable Family Farming (CCAFS) is a result of efforts made by various actors to strengthen sustainable family farming and the development...

Women are especially threatened by climate change and biodiversity destruction. Yet, their in-depth and intimate knowledge makes them uniquely engaged to protect and restore critical ecosystems, strengthen traditional food systems,...

This document provides an update on the project: "Support for Capacity-Building Activities at the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries Training Center on Sustainable Family Agriculture and Agroecology" implemented by FAO...

The Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP) of McKnight Foundation will host a Farmer Research Film Festival ''Reimagining Research for Agroecology'' on 11 and 12 October 2021. This festival, and the process that...

Humankind is facing a perfect storm of climate change, biodiversity loss, and multiple forms of malnutrition (stunting, wasting, micronutrient deficiencies, and obesity) coexisting in the same country, community, household, and...

Achieving a world without hunger by 2030 requires targeted support to make agricultural production more resilient and more sustainable for millions of smallholder farmers in the Global South. Agroecological farm...

São Tomé and Príncipe have been building an important and internationally recognized path in the promotion of agroecology, which can be illustrated with almost a quarter of its entire agricultural...

The Biovision Foundation is partnering up with the Agropolis Fondation for the SHIFT Prize for Transformative Agroecological Research for Development. This prize aims to recognize collaborative research for development projects and initiatives that have made...

The Irish Government has set out the commendable ambition to become a global leader in sustainable food systems over the next decade. Given Ireland’s commitments to international and regional agreements,...

Across Latin America, there are eight agroecology schools established by La via Campesina, the world's largest peasant movement, and the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC for its acronym...

8 and 9 December 2021  Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), the Asian Farmers' Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), the United Nations Educational, Scientific...

Agroecology Newsletter of October 2021

Agroecology Newsletter of December 2021

The excessive investments in agriculture continue to support inequitable food systems that generate an increasingly demanding food supply and drive further environmental degradation resulting in a growing climate change trend....

This paper presents participatory photography as an innovative methodology to understand the subjective motivations behind Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) adoption by members of Women's Self-Help Groups in Andhra Pradesh,...

Following the COP26 summit (October 31 – November 12, 2021) to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the...

The Family farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP), in close collaboration with the Barefoot Guide Connection, organizes the Writeshop "Stories of change: connecting traditional knowledge and innovations for fair and sustainable food systems" to be...