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The diversity of knowledge, Reflections on the Agrobiodiversity@knowledged programme
Different knowledge paradigms and levels of intervention. It helped us to better understand what needed to happen: indeed, it was not so much the technical knowledge that was... -
From Uniformity To Diversity A Paradigm Shift from Industrial Agriculture to...
From Uniformity to Diversity presents the case for moving away from industrial agriculture—dominated by monocultures, chemical inputs, and concentration of power—towards... -
Agroecology: A Global Paradigm to Challenge Mainstream Industrial Agriculture
Considerable controversy continues to exist in scientific and policy circles about how to tackle issues of global hunger, malnutrition, and rural economic decline, as well as... -
The Farming Systems Trial
The hallmark of a truly sustainable system is its ability to regenerate itself. When it comes to farming, the key to sustainable agriculture is healthy soil, since this is the... -
Toward thick legitimacy: Creating a web of legitimacy for agroecology
Legitimacy is at the heart of knowledge politics surrounding agriculture and food. When people accept industrial food practices as credible and authoritative, they are... -
Lending credence: motivation, trust, and organic certification
The information asymmetries inherent in credence goods have typically led economists to conclude these markets require well-defined quality standards and third-party... -
To Linking Sustainable and Agroecological Production with Market in...
This workshop is the result of two research projects: the first, on “Sustainable practices, sustainable markets? Exploring the institutional changes that link sustainable... -
Resolving the twin human and environmental health hazards of a plant based diet
Food can be health-giving. A global transition towards plant-based diets may equally help curb carbon emissions, slow land-system change and conserve finite resources. Yet,... -
Who Will Feed Us? The Industrial Food Chain vs. The Peasant Food Web
1 - Peasants are the main or sole food providers to more than 70% of the world’s people, and peasants produce this food with less (often much less) than 25% of the resources –... -
Mainstreaming Agroecology Implications for Global Food and Farming Systems
In 2010, the Centre for Agroecology and Food Security (CAFS) was established to undertake applied research and education on agroecology as the underlying paradigm of sustainable... -
Agroecology and the Search for a Truly Sustainable Agriculture - 1st edition
There is increasing evidence that warns that the growing push toward industrialization and globalization of the world’s agriculture and food supply imperils the future of... -
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food
The report was written in collaboration with the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous... -
Agroecology and the Food System
On a global scale agriculture and food will face key challenges of properly feeding a population of nine billion individuals in 2050, while preserving the ecosystems from which... -
Organic Agriculture as an Opportunity for Sustainable agricultural Development
We need drastic change in the global food system in order to achieve a more sustainable agriculture that feeds people adequately, contribute to rural development and provide... -
Replacing Chemicals with Biology. Phasing out highly hazardous pesticides...
Adverse effects of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) on people and the environment have been a global concern for many years. In 2006, this was clearly expressed by the FAO... -
PGS Guidelines “ How participatory guarantee systems can develop and function
To give the guidelines of Participatory guarantee systemsThis document made by IFOAM is the guidelines of participatory guarantee systems. It gives all the elements with concern... -
Scaling Up Agroecology “ Toward the realization of the right to food
Present agroecology and conditions for scaling up.This document of the IATP presents agroecology (definition, principles) and various conditions which will allow scaling up... -
Farmers taking the leadThirty years of farmer field schools
The Farmer Field School (FFS) has been one of the most successful approaches developed and promoted by FAO over the past three decades, empowering farmers to become better... -
Management of rice insect pests
This is a part of the Achieving sustainable cultivation of rice Volume 2 - Cultivation, pest and disease management€ -
The state of the world’s biodiversity for food and agriculture
This report presents the first global assessment of biodiversity for food and agriculture (BFA). It complements other global assessments prepared under the auspices of the...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.