General presentation for Why and how should policy makers support organic agriculture by IFOAM

This paper was prepared as a background document for the thematic session on €˜Agroecology for Sustainable Systems’ at the Global Science, Technology and Innovation Conference...

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...

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 infographic by CIDSE

This publication provides real life examples on how to re-engage youth in agriculture. It shows how tailor-made educational programmes can provide rural youth with the skills...

This study seeks to provide empirical evidence on the economic impacts that are generated through the GI process, beginning with the official recognition of a GI and the steps...

The purpose of this study is to explore whether and how products from agroecological production systems are being valued in markets. This exploratory study has been conducted...

Sustainable intensification has recently been developed and adopted as a key concept and driver for research and policy in sustainable agriculture. It includes ecological,...

Presentation for ALiSEA thematic workshop 29/11/2016, Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR

"Because of the centrality of resilient seed systems to our collective future of food, and because of the urgency to attend to the threats currently placed upon them, the Global...

Agroecology is ever more present in our food and farming system. In recent years, this approach to farming and food has gained visibility and recognition among food producers,...

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...

This issue of Farming Matters looks at the growing number of initiatives worldwide that aim to harness the potential of traditional plants. Cultivating traditional plants builds...

This paper summarizes the main findings of the GLAMUR project which starts with an apparently simple question: is local€ more sustainable than global€? Sustainability...

Between 2013 and 2015, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) undertook a survey of...

With consumers and producers seeking alternative to corporate, industrial food, systems of provision that promise greater ecological and social sustainability have gained in...

Rapid population growth, increasingly complex economies and novel industrial uses of agricultural products call for further intensification of agriculture, particularly in the...

How can inefficient, poorly managed smallholder systems be transformed into productive agroecological systems? And how can environmentally destructive, energy and chemical...

To replace agroecology in a global context and to mention the conditions required for developing agroecology.This document is written in two parts: the first one describes...