Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in the Sahel whose economy is highly dominated by agriculture and livestock husbandry, with more than 70% of the population living in rural areas. The prevailing farming system is smallholder agriculture based on cereal production, especially sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) and pearl millet...

  We like to share with you our recently published Training Manual of the Ecological Organic Agriculture Leadership Course (EOALC) that combines a unique mix of leadership topics and technical knowledge on Ecological Organic Agriculture.  Background of the leadership course It was in 2019, when The German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and IFOAM...

The Southern Frontier College (ECOSUR for its acronym in Spanish), in partnership with the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC- for its acronym in Spanish) and the Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA for its acronym in Spanish), announce this call for applications for Master's Degree in agroecology. The...

I spent my summer vacations at my grandma's after my 6th-grade examinations. Grandma lives in a small village in Kerala in India. It was always fun to be at her place, spending my days playing, helping in the kitchen and feeding the cows. I rarely visited grandma every year as...

Agroecologie enables the improvement of agricultural production through the enhancement of local natural resources and traditional know-how. It contributes to maintaining biodiversity and restoring land in drylands, which are particularly threatened by global warming and food insecurity, while contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Within the framework of the...