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Fair-trade and organic products are often sold at price premiums justified by smaller production volumes that are associated with greater social and environmental...

Presentation of Natural Agriculture Village Shop established fully in early 2015 and to promote safe food supply and empower farmer market

This presentation talking to study food contamination for different types of food on retail markets in Paxeng and Luang Prabang province and promote food safety for improved...

Composite farming systems, first clearly identified by Rambo, are those in which radically different technologies are found together in a single farming complex. Data from...

This document is the final report of a serie of workshops. This workshop is the result of two research projectsthe first, on Sustainable practices, sustainable markets?...

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...

This document presents various options for a sustainable agriculture and food system. It adresses the obstacles preventing the transformation from moving forward and how...

This document introduces the concept of Agroecology and how it can transform the dominant agro-food system through various Agroecological practices.

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...

Legitimacy is at the heart of knowledge politics surrounding agriculture and food. When people accept industrial food practices as credible and authoritative, they are...

This report presents a short consolidated account of 4 national multi-stakeholder workshops addressing Agroecological Transition in the Mekong Region and bringing together 225...

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...

These posters are based on key messages derived from a sourcebook of reading/reference materials in a companion production entitled "Towards Climate Resilience in Agriculture...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The National Poverty Eradication Programme (NPEP) has been renamed by the Government of the Lao PDR in order to avoid confusion with the 8 national programmes and to better...

This Forestry Law determines the basic principles, regulations and measures on sustainable management, preservation, development, utilization and inspection of forest resources...

DECREE on Endorsement and Declaration of the Forestry Strategy to the Year 2020 of the Lao PDR:- Pursuant to the Law on the Government of Lao PDR, No. 02/NA, dated 6 May 2003-...