Germinate! Vol. 1 (2024)

Les résultats observés dans la vallée du M'Zab valident l'équation du risque (Risque = Aléa × Exposition × Vulnérabilité) en démontrant comment l'agroécologie permet de réduire la vulnérabilité des systèmes agricoles face aux sécheresses. Cette réduction...

Agriculture impacts and is affected by climate change. Many current agricultural practices rely heavily on industrial methods such as monocropping, overreliance on synthetic fertilizers, and harmful use of antibiotics to maximize production.

Tanzania’s integration of agroecology into its biodiversity conservation framework represents a proactive and sustainable approach to development. By aligning agricultural practices with ecological principles, the government addresses the twin challenges of food security and environmental protection.

Diverse, localized, farmer managed seed systems are the cornerstone of a biodiverse, climate-resilient, equitable food system—and essential to achieving zero hunger. However, somewhere along the way in the “modernization” of...

Nowadays, a new wave of ‘modernisation’ is challenging agriculture. The digitalisation of our world is ongoing and delivers promises - but also many concerns. How could agroecology cope with this...

In the past, when I thought of the work done by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), I thought of how for many years FAO has primarily supported conventional...

  Despite the well established case for agroecology, the international community continues to hear calls for “more evidence” that support its widespread adoption. A robust body of scientific evidence  already exists,...

Since the earliest origins of agriculture, farmers and cultivated plants (or crops) have rightly been credited with securing copious food supplies and enabling the rise of complex societies. From Mesopotamia...

There is real momentum in Eastern and Southern Africa to develop National Agroecology Strategies (NAS) and policies to support agroecological transitions in these regions. These strategies have the potential to...