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...

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...

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...

During the late twentieth century, the “Green Revolution” attained wide-ranging poverty alleviation, food security and improved nutrition across rural Asia. As these...

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...

This video highlights best practices and lessons learned from the project "Strengthening Community Capacity in Monitoring Pesticide Use and Promoting Agroecology – for a Non-...

This practice brief describes an approach to drive the adoption of agroecological practices, including composting, by fostering farmers' active engagement in problem analysis,...

Article Biological control of an agricultural pest protects tropical forests€

The Farmer Participatory Crop Benchmarking (FPCB) study was implemented as an 18-month pilot study in Magwe township in the Central Dry Zone and is the first of its kind in...