Quelles sont les capacités d’émancipation des technologies agricoles pour les communautés paysannes ? Est-il plus urgent pour les paysanneries d’accéder à la terre et à des moyens de production qu’à des nouvelles technologies ? Nous avons posé ces questions à Laurent Delcourt, chargé d’études au Centre tricontinental (CETRI – Louvain-la...

En Afrique de l’Ouest, les terres agricoles certifiées comme biologiques sont rares, représentant seulement 0,1 % au Sénégal, 0,5 % au Bénin et au Burkina Faso et 1 % au Togo. Néanmoins, un grand nombre de petites exploitations familiales choisissent des approches respectueuses de l’environnement et de la santé humaine...

La surutilisation des produits chimiques de synthèse ou des antibiotiques pour lutter contre les insectes ou les bactéries entraîne des phénomènes de résistance chez les organismes nuisibles. Pour enrayer ce cercle vicieux, des traitements à base de plantes se développent un peu partout dans le monde. En Afrique, les savoirs...

Seed systems are essential to bring good genetic material to farmers. Women farmers, however, have benefited less than men farmers from seed systems in low and middle income countries. We identify factors that inhibit and promote women's success in seed businesses through three case studies of women's and men's entrepreneurship...

Dans les hauteurs des Andes péruviennes, entre 3500 et 5000 mètres d’altitude, vivent près de 34 000 éleveurs d’alpagas, connu sous le nom de alpaqueros. Malgré le fait que 70 à 80 % de leurs revenus proviennent de l’élevage d’alpagas, de nombreuses familles vivent encore dans une extrême pauvreté, en...

Les données relatives au climat et à l’agriculture n’ont jamais été aussi importantes pour aider les populations à prévoir les aléas climatiques et réfléchir à la meilleure façon de s’adapter. L’essor de nouvelles technologies a permis de multiplier les façons de les collecter. Mais par un triste paradoxe, alors que...

En Afrique de l’Ouest, face à la croissance rapide des villes et à une demande accrue de la part des consommateurs urbains et ruraux, les systèmes alimentaires fondés sur l’agriculture familiale renforcent déjà dans nombre d’endroits la capacité d’un pays ou d’une région à nourrir ses populations par la production...

This poster on important energy plants of Zimbabwe focus on energy, protein, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, zinc and energy. 

The role of agency in women’s empowerment, whether individual or collective, has long been at the center of feminist discourse. Although, highly context dependent, studies on agency are less contextualized. Based on mixed methods, we generated in-depth understandings of what constitutes agency in livestock-based institutions, and associated contextual factors across...

Many countries have integrated agroforestry into their sustain-able development policies, particularly in Southeast Asia. In Timor-Leste, the national strategy to promote agroforestry has adopted a modern, technique-oriented approach focused on crop rotation, intercropping and agro-silvo-pasture. In so doing, it has largely overlooked the pre-existence, diversity and perfor-mance of traditional agroforestry...

Over the last three decades organic food and farming has been growing year by year across the EU and continues doing so. The EU’s organic market is very dynamic with growth rates varying between countries. Policies can positively impact this growth – both production and consumption. In 2022, the EU’s total...

This book is a short guide that captures the process of Good Food in setting up an alternative distribution system like Pamayanihan Community Supported Agriculture to relocalize food economies in the Philippines.

Over the past two decades, the Mekong region has experienced significant transformation of its agricultural sector from subsistence farming to export crops driven by the expansion of agricultural land and of irrigation, plus intensification thanks to mechanization and the use of chemical inputs. In the context of agrarian transition, maintaining...

Access Agriculture is proud to announce the release of its new book “Young changemakers,” which offers a rich diversity of perspectives and insights from real-life experiences of 42 inspiring teams of youths in Africa and India who are blazing a trail as private extension and advisory service providers promoting agroecology...

This document is designed to provide comprehensive guidelines for the production and management of quality planting materials for the benefit of farmers, nursery operators, agricultural extension agents, and other stakeholders. It explores the significance of using Quality Planting Material (QPM) for successful agroforestry practices and focuses an the pivotal role...

Food waste could be made into useful compost, instead of mixing it with plastic and other inorganic trash, as my wife Ana recently explained on a panel discussion on Radio Cepra in Cochabamba. She was invited by a local NGO, Alerta Verde (Green Alert), along with two agronomists who encourage...

The United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-28 (UNDFF) aims at promoting integrated actions and cross-sectoral policies to advance family farming. It recognizes Rural Communication Services as key factors and assets to be developed and promoted as part of family farming and sustainable food systems.This two-page flyer offers access to...

Given environmental, economic, and social costs of unilateral chemical and biotechnological interventions to control pests, there is an urgent need to transition towards a knowledge-intensive holistic approach emphasizing agroecosystem design and management. The focus will be on what makes agroecosystems susceptible and vulnerable to insect pests, pathogens and weeds, in...

Highlights: • Young changemakers revolutionise scaling agroecology using video. • CCDB honours Access Agriculture with plaque in appreciation of partnership. • 96 new videos added in March. • Editor's choice of video - Converting chicken waste into fertilizer• Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERAs) at work in Cameroon. • Trash to treasure....

Over a ten-year period, we, together with colleagues, have used qualitative and quantitative analysis to explore the dominant narratives and ‘conventional wisdom’ about young people and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Throughout, we have sought to carefully consider the conceptualisations embedded in these narratives, their empirical foundations, and their implications...