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...

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...

This document is the synthesis of IAASTD studies on international agriculture, it is a global assessment. It presents the conclusions of several experts on different issues.

This presentation for the event on the Agri-Business Conference Laos 2019€ at the rooftop of Kolao Building on 25 June 2019, Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR.

This report explores different future pathways for food and agriculture systems through three distinct scenarios characterized by the way the key challenges to food security,...

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) (2018). Measuring what matters in agriculture and food systems: a synthesis of the results and recommendations of TEEB for...

The main objective of this study is to describe the current situation and contribute to setting out a common position on youth development in family farming. The conclusions...