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Making Sense (and Cents) of Food and Nature. <em>A media guide to covering...
We know there’s something wrong with the food. What we don’t knowIt doesn’t have to be that way. People are increasingly aware, though still woefully misinformed, that there is... -
Agroecology and Sustainable Development
Understanding the cornerstones of agroecology€ requires a sustained and significant collective effort, comparable to the efforts that went into conquering space. (...) Without... -
Why a Complexe Food System is Needed, Now
This document presents various options for a sustainable agriculture and food system. It adresses the obstacles preventing the transformation from moving forward and how... -
Agroecological practicesTransforming the dominant agro-food system?
This document introduces the concept of Agroecology and how it can transform the dominant agro-food system through various Agroecological practices. -
How to amplify agroecology ?
Amplification of agroecological experiences is the main challenge today€, in the words of former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, because of its... -
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI)Responses to frequent 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 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... -
Organic Agriculture as an Opportunity for Sustainable agricultural Development
We need drastic change in the global food system in order to achieve a more sustainable agriculture that feeds people adequately, contribute to rural development and provide... -
Lending credencemotivation, trust, and organic certification
Various forms of regulation are often used to improve the performance of markets when relevant information is lacking. A good example is markets for credence goods or goods with... -
Toward thick legitimacycreating 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 crop for the agricultural bieconomy
Society is now calling on agriculture to provide goods and services that begin with enhanced production of food and other materials, but range far beyond. For example,... -
The Farming Systems Trial
The hallmark of a truly sustainable system is its ability to generate itself. When it comes to farming, the key to sustainable agriculture is healthy soil, since it is a... -
AgroecologyA global Paradigm to Challenges Mainstreams 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... -
Farmer Field School Guidance DocumentPlanning for quality programmes
Every day we learn more about the global challenges facing food production : global warming, extreme weather, intercontinental invasions by pests and diseases, land degradation... -
FARMING FOR THE FUTURE. Organic and Agroecological Solutions to Feed the World
Hunger is not primarily a problem of overall supply of food, but rather of poverty, lack of democracy and unequal access to land, water and other resources, especially for... -
From Uniformity to Diversity. A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture...
This report explores the potential for a shift to occur from current food systems, characterized by industrial modes of agriculture, to systems based around diversified... -
FARMER FIELD SCHOOL GUIDANCE DOCUMENT, Planning for quality programmes
Since the development of the farmer field school (FFS) approach in the late 80s in Asia, thousands of FFS have since been implemented across the world, in over 90 countries and... -
The diversity of knowledge, Reflection on the agrobiodiversity
knowledged programme, Hivos and Oxfam novib wanted to contribute to solutions for this unfolding drama.This report is the result of a three years knowledge programme of Hivos,... -
Organic agriculture in the twenty first century
Organic agriculture has a history of being contentious and is considered by some as an inefficient approach to food production. Yet organic foods and beverages are a rapidly... -
Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in Swidden cultivation in tropical...
This meta-analysis of land cover transformation of the past 10-15 years in tropical-agriculture frontier worldwide show that swidden agriculture decrease in landscapes with...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.