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Farmer Field School Guidance Document: Planning for Quality Programme
Farmers field schools (FFS), FAO's front-line innovation, are amongst its most fundamental field contributions to fulfill this commitment. FAO has been incubating, nurturing and... -
The Current and Future Roles of Small Farm Resource Centers in Extension and...
Small Farm Resource Centers (SFRCs) coordinate trials on a central site as well as on fields of individual farmers. Any new ideas, techniques, or crops are first evaluated at... -
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... -
The System of Rice Intensification, Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
Compared to a decade ago, many more persons – at least 10 million people, most of them farmers -- can now answer the question "What is SRI?" at least in general terms. However,... -
Agroecology and Sustainable Development, Field Projects - Advocacy for Smallholders
This report will primarily focus on agroecology projects and the views of partners in the Global South, projects and partners supported by Secours Catholique-Caritas Europe... -
How to Amplify Agroecology? Agroecology Learning Exchange, May 2016
In May 2016, the AgroEcology Fund (AEF) and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) brought grassroots organisers, advocates and donors together in a Learning... -
Agroecological practices: Transforming the dominant agro-food system?
This presentation describes how agroecology stands at a crossroads: it can be absorbed into the dominant, market-driven food system as “sustainable intensification,” it can act... -
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... -
Executive Summary of Agroecology Learning Exchange of 2016 in Masaka, Uganda
From the 10th to the 13th of May 2016, the AgroEcology Fund (AEF) and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) brought together 70 people representing 30 organizations... -
Agroecological and agroforestry practices in tropical wet zones
This guide is designed as a support tool for technicians and farmers involved in actions to promote and develop agroecology. It is a follow-up to a first technical guide... -
Why a Complex Food System is Needed, Now
The document calls for transforming industrial agriculture into diversified, agroecological systems to combat climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion. It... -
Making Sense (and Cents) of Food and Nature, A media guide to covering...
The document is a media toolkit on agroecology and food sovereignty. It explains the failures of industrial agriculture, highlights agroecology as a sustainable and profitable... -
Report of the International Symposium on Agroecology in China
In September 2014 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) convened the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition. This was... -
Presentation of Development Aid Gembloux (ADG) and its experience on...
The document is a 2016 presentation by Development Aid Gembloux (ADG) at the National multi-stakeholder workshop “Towards an Agro-ecological Transition” held in Cambodia. It... -
Landscapes for Agrobiodiversity, Agrobiodiversity perspectives in land-use decisions
This booklet present the results of an interdisciplinary research project in eight biocultural landscapes undertaken by the Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research (PAR) in... -
Farmer Research Networks as a Strategy for Matching Diverse Options and...
The agricultural research and development institutions in most developing countries are poorly equipped to support the needs of millions of smallholder farmers that depend upon... -
Demand for Organic Agriculture Products in Chiang Mai
This study aims to confirm relationship of determinants of demand for organic agriculture products in Chiang Mai. Self-administered questionnaires was sent out to respondents in... -
Integrated Pest Management for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture in...
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a leading complement and alternative to synthetic pesticides and a form of sustainable intensification with particular importance for...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.