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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...

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...

Every day we learn more about the global challenges facing food production : global warming, extreme weather, intercontinental invasions by pests and diseases, land degradation...

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...

During the late twentieth century, the Green Revolution€ attained wide-ranging poverty alleviation, food security and improved nutrition across rural Asia. As these...

Article Biological control of an agricultural pest protects tropical forests€

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...

The Farmer Participatory Crop Benchmarking (FPCB) study was implemented as an 18-month pilot study in Magwe township in the Central Dry Zone and is the first of its kind in...