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Agroecological Transitions - Changes and Breakthroughs in the Making
To underline the need for radical, systemic changes, we have chosen the term AgroEcological Transitions€ for the title of this volume. It stresses that a transition towards... -
Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture An integrated systems...
Sustainable intensification has recently been developed and adopted as a key concept and driver for research and policy in sustainable agriculture. It includes ecological,... -
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... -
Building Partnerships for Sustainable Agriculture and Food SecurityA Guide...
Over the past five years, the World Economic Forum’s New Vision for Agriculture (NVA) initiative has supported leaders in 19 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America 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... -
Guidelines for Public Support to Organic Agriculture
the "Guidelines for public support to organic agriculture": these guidelines make the cornerstone of the toolkit and present the fullest possible compilation of facts, arguments... -
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... -
Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food...
This rapid capacity assessment tool aims to help practitioners (such as government agencies, youth organizations, or development partners) to carry out a multi-stakeholder... -
Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food...
This document provides guidance to support the utilization of the Rapid Capacity Assessment Tool: Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food... -
Empowering Youth to Engage in Responsible Investments in Agriculture and Food Systems
The Principles for Responsible Investments in Agriculture and Food Systems (CFS-RAI) adopted by the Committee on World Food Security establish that, among other social,... -
PGS Guidelines “ How participatory guarantee systems can develop and function
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... -
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... -
The diversity of knowledge, Reflections on the Agrobiodiversity@knowledged programme
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... -
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... -
Who Wants to Farm? Youth Aspirations, Opportunities and Rising Food Prices
This paper explores these conditions in a context of food price volatility, and in particular rising food prices since 2007. To do so, it analyses primary qualitative research... -
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...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.