Organic farming tries to work with nature as much as possible. This applies both to the crops and animals, which provide the basis for our survival, as well as the surrounding...

To give the guidelines of Participatory guarantee systemsThis document made by IFOAM is the guidelines of participatory guarantee systems. It gives all the elements with concern...

Soil and nutrient management is an integrated system to manage soils, nutrients, water and crops in a sustainable manner to optimise crop production and maintain/improve soil...

From Uniformity to Diversity presents the case for moving away from industrial agriculture—dominated by monocultures, chemical inputs, and concentration of power—towards...

The Organic Agriculture Standards are designed promote Clean Agriculture within the agriculture and forestry sectors, and to ensure that the management of agriculture production...

Different knowledge paradigms and levels of intervention. It helped us to better understand what needed to happen: indeed, it was not so much the technical knowledge that was...

Given the increasing scope and impacts of environmental pollution and food poisonings in Vietnam since its agricultural sector started with further intensification with more...

The document “Multiple Pathways: Case Studies of Sustainable Agriculture in China” (IIED, 2015) presents eight detailed case studies of ecological and organic farming...

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...

Legitimacy is at the heart of knowledge politics surrounding agriculture and food. When people accept industrial food practices as credible and authoritative, they are...

The information asymmetries inherent in credence goods have typically led economists to conclude these markets require well-defined quality standards and third-party...

This document is a case study factsheet about the “Agroforestry Alternatives to Shifting Cultivation in Upland Myanmar” project that aims to build a knowledge base and provide a...

This workshop is the result of two research projects: the first, on “Sustainable practices, sustainable markets? Exploring the institutional changes that link sustainable...

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...

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...

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...

This experience sharing workshop is part of the activities implemented by the Agroecology Learning alliance in South East Asia (ALiSEA) to foster multi stakeholder...

The study “Organic by Default: Myth or Reality? Evidence from the Lao PDR” analyzes the impact of certified organic rice farming under a Helvetas project. Comparing organic, ex-...

This presentation introduces The Bolaven Plateau Coffee Producers Cooperative (CPC), created in 2007 and owned by 1,422 farming families. It aims to boost Lao smallholders’...

NEED Myanmar Eco Village Farm, founded in 2013 in Hmawbi, trains youth in sustainable agriculture and community development. It promotes organic farming, environmental...