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Sustainable Soil Management Course Manual - Part 1, 2, 3
This manual is intended to be used in association with Trust Nature’s Sustainable Soils Management Course and is designed to complement course notes and other course materials.... -
Agroecology Now! Transformations Towards More Just and Sustainable Food Systems
This book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It explores the potential of agroecology as a sustainable... -
The exchange and methodological construction workshop Agro-Ecologyevaluation...
Proceedings of the exchange and methodological construction workshop Agro-Ecology: evaluation methods for its effects and conditions for development€ on the 14th and 15th of... -
The 10 elements of Agroecology: Guiding the transition to sustainable food...
This document presents the 10 elements emanated from the FAO regional seminars on Agroecology when Guiding guiding countries to transform their food and agricultural systems, to... -
Working with SmallholdersA Handbook for Firms Building Sustainable Supply Chains
This handbook is a guide for firms who wish to expand their supply chains by working with smallholder farmers. The purpose is to enable more productive interactions between... -
Voluntary Guide for National Seed Policy Formulation
Ensuring that farmers have access to affordable quality seeds and planting materials of the most suitable crop varieties is essential for improving food security and nutrition... -
Lessons from Nature - A guide to Ecological Agriculture in the tropics
Over millions of years, nature has built up an intricate system of relationship of exchange and mutual dependence among its elements - land, water, air, forest, sunlight and... -
The principles of agroecology : towards just, resilient and sustainable food systems
This document has been developed by the CIDSE Task Force on agroecology and is the result of a collaboration and dialogue held over the past year. The examples illustrating the... -
Farmer Field School Guidance Document: Planning for Quality Programme
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... -
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... -
Are Local food Chains More Sustainable than Global Food Chains?...
This paper summarizes the main findings of the GLAMUR project which starts with an apparently simple question: is local€ more sustainable than global€? Sustainability... -
Agroecology: A Global Paradigm to Challenge Mainstream 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... -
The Farming Systems Trial
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... -
Toward thick legitimacy: Creating 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... -
The System of Rice Intensification, Responses to Frequently 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 Sustainable Development, Field Projects - Advocacy for Smallholders
This report will primarily focus on agroecology projects and the views of partners in the Global South, projects and partners supported by Secours Catholique-Caritas Europe... -
To Linking Sustainable and Agroecological Production with Market in...
This workshop is the result of two research projects: the first, on “Sustainable practices, sustainable markets? Exploring the institutional changes that link sustainable... -
Making Sense (and Cents) of Food and Nature, A media guide to covering...
The document is a media toolkit on agroecology and food sovereignty. It explains the failures of industrial agriculture, highlights agroecology as a sustainable and profitable... -
Farmer Research Networks as a Strategy for Matching Diverse Options and...
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... -
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...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.