This report presents the results of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) stock-take on agroecology, an outcome of IFAD’s engagement in the multi-agency Scaling Up Agroecology Initiative launched in...
Pollination management recommendations are becoming increasingly precise, context-specific, and knowledge-intensive. Pollination is a service delivered across landscapes, entailing policy constructs across agricultural landscapes. Diversified farming practices effectively promote pollination services....
The initiative takes place in the central part of the Brazilian semi-arid region. Due to climatic irregularities, this region has a high risk of losses of rainfall-dependent crops, with low...
Fall armyworm (FAW) is attacked by a very wide range of natural enemies. In biologically diverse smallholder fields, known as Milpas, in Central America FAW is regarded as a minor...
Despite the key roles that rural women play in food systems, in agrobiodiversity conservation, natural resource management, food production, preparation and marketing, rural women are particularly affected by the impacts...
This Bulletin includes some of the papers presented at the V Congress of Postcolonial Studies and VII Conference on Postcolonial Feminism "A new (erotic) poetics of Relationship, for a new...
In a series of events and workshops, the trilateral South-South cooperation project ''Sembrando Capacidades'' disseminated the results and products of the agroecology component, in terms of research, agroecological transition, and public policy.
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The Transformative Partnership Platform (TPP) on Agroecology and its partners held a virtual event on 15 July 2021 to discover how bold, context-specific policies can help transition to more sustainable...
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has caused several health, economic, labor and food crises, which revealed pre-existing structural problems that are intensified by the current condition. At the same time,...
This year, World Bee Day will fall during an exceptional moment in history, where many countries continue to deal with the widespread effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the occasion...
More and more producers are adopting agroecological practices in Senegal. This new approach to agriculture is beginning to bear fruit. It is based on a range of technical solutions adapted...
Agroecology has many faces and in order to scale up and remain a legitimate approach in bio-culturally diverse contexts such as Latin America, it has to keep the balance between science,...
The Sustainable Production, Markets and Institutions Division (PMI) of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), presents a special launch webinar of the “Stock-take Report on Agroecology in IFAD Operations:...
The initiative is located in Central India, encompassing the Vidarbha District and the adjoining districts of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Dietary-based anemia is a widespread problem, especially amongst young women....
Nekram Sharma, a farmer from Karsog valley of Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district, India revives along with its community an ancient indigenous farming technique.
Nau-Anaj (‘nau’ means nine and ‘anaj’ is crop)...
The mission of the Voluntary Association of Agricultural General Development Health and Reconstruction Alliance in India (VAAGDHARA) is to create and nurture vibrant institutions of poor and tribal peoples in Western...
Urban and peri-urban agriculture has shown positive results in the mitigation of food insecurity in urban areas, however, it is a process that requires economic and technical support in order...
