We are Magdalene and Gillian, trainers working for Kulika Uganda. We are passionate about seeing that people engaged in agriculture adopt sustainable farming practices which are easy to implement and...
After three years of implementation, the UN Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) will host its first Global Forum on 19-22 September 2022. Co-organized by FAO-IFAD, the Forum will leverage...
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) has collaborated with partners to organize the first trailblazing three-day continental convening on AFRICAN AGROECOLOGICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TERRITORIAL MARKETS in Munyonyo, Uganda,...
It was another hot and humid day, another power cut, the generator groaning in the background. Fans were spinning and pumping hot air around as the A/C didn’t work with...
Today, new digital tools and services make digitalization more suitable to smallholders and could boost transition towards agroecology, climate-smart agriculture, and inclusiveness. Research efforts must now concentrate both on technological...
This document describes the main results that emerged from the application of the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) developed by FAO on the IFAD-funded Regeneration of Landscapes and Livelihoods (ROLL) project in Lesotho....
Sustainable agriculture and agroecology are now essential to the discussion on agricultural models in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study develops a typology of farms with different levels of agroecology, from none...
This report was presented at COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity and it analyses ten grounded experiences from Latin America. The experiences described show that territorial, human-rights based and transdisciplinary...
This policy brief discusses how feebate policies could upscale organic agriculture and food self-sufficiency in Bhutan, specifically looking at rice production.
The simulations show that a feebate (fee and rebate) policy coupled...
This master's degree is carried out in collaboration with the International University of Andalusia, the University of Cordoba, and the Pablo de Olavide University and aims to strengthen a critical and complex perspective and praxis...
The Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA) promotes the Latin American Agroecology Congresses every two years and its ninth version will be held in Costa Rica, organized by the...
As agroecology has increasingly been brought into the international dialogue on the future of food and agriculture, there have been calls for building the evidence base of its performance across...
It was a good day. Sun and cloud were playing hide and seek creating a komorebi (sunbeam)effect in the forest near Syaubaari, Jhumlawang, where my dad and I were looking...
The demand for organic vegetables is rising rapidly but cannot be met by current agronomic methods. The lack of attention for biodiversity and soil fertility of current practices damages the...
It was a sunny Saturday morning, full of life and energy as we arrived in one of the beautiful and serene farming communities in the hinterlands. Whilst one could easily...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing the Global Conference on Sustainable Plant Production (GPC) with the theme “Innovation, Efficiency and Resilience”, on 2-4 November...
Agroforestry is gaining increased attention within global policy processes and has been promoted as a strategy for working towards better food security, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and livelihood resilience....
On a working day in June 2018 under my previous organization, I visited Shibuyunji district to conduct my usual technical support to the extension staff as well as project beneficiaries....
This video lays out the rationale behind agroecology and its potential to improve livelihood and landscape resilience at a plenary session of the Asia-Pacific Symposium on Agrifood System Transformation in...
