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Resolving the twin human and environmental health hazards of a plant based diet
Food can be health-giving. A global transition towards plant-based diets may equally help curb carbon emissions, slow land-system change and conserve finite resources. Yet,... -
Forestry and Agro-Ecology in Lao rural Uplands (FORAE) Viengkham District,...
This short document presents the FORAE project in Viengkham District, Luang Prabang Province, focusing on the use of performance indicators to assess agroecological practices.... -
What performance indicators for assessing agroecology impacts? - EFICAS Project
This document presents an approach to assess the impacts of agroecology (AE) on livelihoods in Laos, focusing on sustainable agricultural intensification and resilience to... -
Open-pollinated & Agro-ecological Vegetable Seed Production
This document highlights the importance of open-pollinated vegetable (OPV) seed production and agroecological farming for small-scale farmers. It promotes seed saving as a way... -
Current Activities on Climate Change Adaptation in Myanmar
This presentation states the Climate Resilient Sustainable Agriculture (CRSA) activities that has been implemented in Myanmar so far. -
Impact of Rural Out-migration on the Resilience of Agricultural System of...
This presentation explores how rural out-migration affects the resilience of rice farming households in the Lower Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar. It analyzes the drivers of... -
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 –... -
Rush for cash crops and forest protection: Neither and sparing nor land sharing
In many countries with large tracts of tropical forest. There is a dual focus on enhancing forest protection and increasing commercial agricultural for economic development.... -
Agroforestry for Livelihood Security in Agrarian Landscapes of the Padma...
In the Padma floodplain of Bangladesh, the traditional system of agriculture has become unsustainable due to high population growth. Mango-based agroforestry which has been... -
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... -
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... -
Promoting Indigenous Knowledge and Good Agricultural Practices in Climate...
Climate change is one of the most important challenges to sustainable development in the Northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Indigeneous Knowledge is also used in... -
The Lao Uplands Sourcebook, Improving livelihoods in the Uplands of Lao PDR
The Lao Uplands Sourcebook was developed in order to provide field level extension workers, educators and students better access to the wealth of information and experiences in... -
Agroecology Stakeholder Mapping and Situation Review in Cambodia
The current report presented results from a study on agroecology stakeholder mapping and situation review in Cambodia conducted within the framework of AFD’s funded regional... -
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... -
The System of Rice Intensification: Adapted practices, reported outcomes and...
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) has been widely promoted in Cambodia and a significant number of adopters have been reported. However, little is known about the... -
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... -
Agroecological and agroforestry practices in tropical wet zones
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... -
Composite farming systems in an era of changeNagaland, Northeast India.
Composite farming systems, first clearly identified by Rambo, are those in which radically different technologies are found together in a single farming complex. Data from... -
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food
The report was written in collaboration with the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.