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The System of Rice Intensification (SRI)Responses to frequent 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 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... -
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... -
Finding alternatives to swidden agriculturedoes agroforestry improve...
Swidden cultivation can contribute to deforestation and land degradation, which can subsequently result in a number of serious environmental problems. This paper examines the... -
Ecological Intensification Management of Maize in northeast ChinaAgronomic...
Optimum field management practices need to be developed and improved to solve the challenge of increasing food production while retaining the ecological integrity of farming... -
The Current and Future Roles of Small Farm Resources Centre in Extension and...
Small Farm Resources Centre (SFRC) model is not a new approach to agricultural outreach. Extension variations on this theme have been in operation in many parts of the world for... -
Toward thick legitimacycreating 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... -
Habitat eradication and cropland intensification may reduce parasitoid...
Ecosystem services, through vital for the future of U.S. agricultural production and profitability are several threatened by agricultural intensification. Pollinator declines,... -
AgroecologyA global Paradigm to Challenges Mainstreams 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... -
Farmer Field School Guidance DocumentPlanning for quality programmes
Every day we learn more about the global challenges facing food production : global warming, extreme weather, intercontinental invasions by pests and diseases, land degradation... -
Multiple pathwaysCase studies of sustainable agriculture in china
Chinese agriculture currently faces major environmental challenges. China’s applications of fertilizers and pesticides are among the highest in the world, which in turn has... -
Climate Resilient AgricultureEducational/Training Posters Series
These posters are based on key messages derived from a sourcebook of reading/reference materials in a companion production entitled "Towards Climate Resilience in Agriculture... -
FARMING FOR THE FUTURE. Organic and Agroecological Solutions to Feed the World
Hunger is not primarily a problem of overall supply of food, but rather of poverty, lack of democracy and unequal access to land, water and other resources, especially for... -
From Uniformity to Diversity. A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture...
This report explores the potential for a shift to occur from current food systems, characterized by industrial modes of agriculture, to systems based around diversified... -
FARMER FIELD SCHOOL GUIDANCE DOCUMENT, Planning for quality programmes
Since the development of the farmer field school (FFS) approach in the late 80s in Asia, thousands of FFS have since been implemented across the world, in over 90 countries and... -
Multiple pathwayscase studies of sustainable agriculture in China.
Chinese agriculture currently faces major challenges. China’s use of fertilisers and pesticides is among the highest in the world. Soil erosion and soil pollution are... -
The diversity of knowledge, Reflection on the agrobiodiversity
knowledged programme, Hivos and Oxfam novib wanted to contribute to solutions for this unfolding drama.This report is the result of a three years knowledge programme of Hivos,... -
Organic agriculture in the twenty first century
Organic agriculture has a history of being contentious and is considered by some as an inefficient approach to food production. Yet organic foods and beverages are a rapidly... -
Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in Swidden cultivation in tropical...
This meta-analysis of land cover transformation of the past 10-15 years in tropical-agriculture frontier worldwide show that swidden agriculture decrease in landscapes with...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.