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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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 Now! Transformations Towards More Just and Sustainable Food Systems
This book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It explores the potential of agroecology as a 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... -
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... -
A quantitative and qualitative historical analysis of the scientific...
agroecology, agroecosystem, agronomy, biodiversity, organic farming, rural development, sustainability -
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... -
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... -
COVID-19 and the crisis in food systemsSymptoms, causes, and potential solutions
The COVID-19 health crisis has brought on an economic crisis, and is rapidly exacerbating an ongoing food security and nutrition crisis. In a matter of weeks, COVID-19 has laid... -
FAO’s global work on agroecology and the scaling up initiative
This presentation for the Regional workshop on the Application of the FAO Global Analytical Framework for the multidimensional assessment of Agroecology, 24-26 September 2019,... -
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... -
Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food...
This document provides guidance to support the utilization of the Rapid Capacity Assessment Tool: Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food... -
Empowering Youth to Engage in Responsible Investments in Agriculture and Food Systems
The Principles for Responsible Investments in Agriculture and Food Systems (CFS-RAI) adopted by the Committee on World Food Security establish that, among other social,... -
The future Alternative pathways to 2050 of food and agriculture “ Summary
This report presents a foresight exercise undertaken to identify potential strategic options for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) concerning food and... -
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 Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.