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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Sustainable commercialization of new crops for the agricultural bioeconomy
Diversification of agroecological systems to enhance agrobiodiversity is likely to be critical to advancing environmental, economic, and social sustainability of agriculture.... -
Lending credence: motivation, trust, and organic certification
The information asymmetries inherent in credence goods have typically led economists to conclude these markets require well-defined quality standards and third-party... -
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... -
How to Amplify Agroecology? Agroecology Learning Exchange, May 2016
In May 2016, the AgroEcology Fund (AEF) and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) brought grassroots organisers, advocates and donors together in a Learning...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.