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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... -
Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems
This paper was prepared as a background document for the thematic session on ‘Agroecology for Sustainable Systems’ at the Global Science, Technology and Innovation Conference... -
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... -
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
This is a brief introduction of the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) programme. For centuries, farmers, herders, fishers and foresters have developed... -
The New Green Revolution How Twenty-First-Century Science Can Feed the World
To introduce the concept of a new agricultural paradigmThis document of the UN special rapporteur on the right to food and his advisor aims at presenting a new agricultural... -
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... -
AgroecologyInnovating for sustainable agriculture, food systems
Industrial food production contributes heavily towards climate change, environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources €“ and in so doing it erodes the very... -
Agroecology as a Pathway towards Sustainable Food Systems
This report summarizes the results of impact studies about agroecological interventions in semiarid regions in three countries, namely, Pernambuco state in Brazil, Fatick... -
Who Wants to Farm? Youth Aspirations, Opportunities and Rising Food Prices
This paper explores these conditions in a context of food price volatility, and in particular rising food prices since 2007. To do so, it analyses primary qualitative research...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.