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Decision of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry on Organic Agriculture...
The Organic Agriculture Standards are designed promote Clean Agriculture within the agriculture and forestry sectors, and to ensure that the management of agriculture production... -
Forestry Law, Lao PDR, 2007
This Forestry Law determines the basic principles, regulations and measures on sustainable management, preservation, development, utilization and inspection of forest resources... -
China’s view on implementation and performance of agroecology
This speech given on the 11th of March 2016, highlights China’s long tradition of ecological farming practices, such as rice–fish systems and crop rotation, and frames... -
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... -
Habitat eradication and cropland intensification may reduce parasitoid...
California’s central coast differs from many agricultural areas in the U.S., which feature large tracts of monoculture production fields and relatively simple landscapes. Known... -
Agroecological practices: Transforming the dominant agro-food system?
This presentation describes how agroecology stands at a crossroads: it can be absorbed into the dominant, market-driven food system as “sustainable intensification,” it can act... -
Report of the International Symposium on Agroecology in China
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... -
Trade offs between ecosystem services and opportunity costs in the TonLe Sap...
This 2016 study by Ecoland examines rice farming systems around Tonle Sap Lake, showing how ecosystem services vary by method. Floating rice offers the most ecological benefits... -
Agriculture at a Crossroads, International Assessment of Agricultural...
Modern agriculture is producing more food per capita than ever before. At the same time, according to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), almost 800... -
The success story of Saw Htoo Baw; "Small farmer with big dreams!"
The presentation of the Annual General Meeting of ALiSEA Myanmar, 19-24 February 2018, in Myanmar -
Finding alternatives to swidden agriculture: does 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... -
Asia at the Crossroads Prioritising Conventional Farming or Sustainable Agriculture?
This report argues that Asian countries are at a crossroads in their agriculture strategies. Before them are two farming models: „conventional‟, industrial farming, promoted by... -
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... -
Organic Agriculture Worldwide: Key results from the FiBL-IFOAM survey on...
There are 3 presentations summarizing the key results of the FiBL-IFOAM survey on organic agriculture worldwide 2013 (data 2011). Apart from the global data, key results on crop... -
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... -
Presentations from the Regional Forum on Promoting Sustainable Agriculture...
The Mekong Sub-region is rapidly becoming a new frontier of economic growth in Southeast Asia due to its rich human and natural capital (ADB 2017). Its suitability for a wide... -
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... -
Alder trees enhance crop productivity and soil microbial biomass in tea plantations
Monoculture farming systems lead to soils depleted of nutrients and diminished microbial functional diversity, disrupting process crucial to maintaining soil health. The... -
A quantitative and qualitative historical analysis of the scientific...
agroecology, agroecosystem, agronomy, biodiversity, organic farming, rural development, sustainability -
ASIA REGIONAL ORGANIC STANDARD
This book presents the package of standard for organic agriculture use in Asian region. It is a major component of an initiative to development regional cooperation on organic...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.