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Agroecology and the Search for a Truly Sustainable Agriculture - 1st edition
There is increasing evidence that warns that the growing push toward industrialization and globalization of the world’s agriculture and food supply imperils the future of... -
Presentations from the Regional Forum on Promoting Sustainable Agriculture...
The Mekong Sub-region is rapidly becoming a new frontier of economic growth in Southeast Asia due to its rich human and natural capital (ADB 2017). Its suitability for a wide... -
FARMER RESEARCH NETWORKS AS A STRATEGY FOR MATCHING DIVERSE OPTIONS AND...
The agricultural research and development institutions in most developing countries are poorly equipped to support the needs of millions of smallholder farmers that depend upon... -
The Lao Uplands Sourcebook, Improving livelihoods in the Uplands of Lao PDR
The Lao Uplands Sourcebook was developed in order to provide field level extension workers, educators and students better access to the wealth of information and experiences in... -
Report of the International Symposium on Agroecology in China
In September 2014 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) convened the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition. This was... -
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... -
Proceedings of the Agroecology Learning Exchange 2016 in Masaka, Uganda
Agroecology is a process. You cannot expect a process to be perfect immediately. But once you make a step, you are moving.€€”Jowelia Mukiibi, farmer, UgandaFrom the 10th to the... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
NBSAP Assessment An Assessment of Lao PDR’s National Biodiversity Strategy...
In 1996, the Government of Lao PDR acceded to United Nation International Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In meeting the requirements of the convention, in 2004, the... -
Indigenous agroforestry practices in two districts in the northern part of Lao PDR
In the north of Lao PDR people live close to the nature and their main activity is growing rice. Shifting cultivation is the dominating practice and upland rice is the... -
Adoption of Agroforestry in Mai District, Phongsaly Province - Lao PDR
Factors that influence the adoption of agroforestry were investigated by conducting semi-structured interviews with men, women, and leader groups in eight target villages, Mai... -
FED UP NOW'S THE TIME TO INVEST IN AGRO-ECOLOGY
This document views the concept of agro ecology, benefits of agro ecology in multiple areas, and recommendations for new investment and support to scale up smallholder focused... -
ASIA REGIONAL ORGANIC STANDARD
This book presents the package of standard for organic agriculture use in Asian region. It is a major component of an initiative to development regional cooperation on organic... -
Nourishing the world sustainably scaling up agroecology
Explain what is agroecology and bring forward the key roles of agroecology.This document brings a presentation of agroecology: principles, practices, attributes of agroecology... -
Agriculture at a crossroads “ East and South Asia and the Pacific (ESAP) Report
Present the synthesis of the agricultural situation in East and South Asia and the Pacific.This document is a report of IAASTD that presents the general agricultural situation... -
Farmers taking the leadThirty years of farmer field schools
The Farmer Field School (FFS) has been one of the most successful approaches developed and promoted by FAO over the past three decades, empowering farmers to become better... -
Narrative report of Farmer Forum on Agro-Ecological Practices and Food Sovereignty
The Farmer Forum on Agroecology Practices and Food Sovereignty organized by Kalyana Mitta Development Foundation (KMF) on 22-23 March 2019, at Central Agriculture Research and...
