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Agriculture at a Crossroads, International Assessment of Agricultural...

Modern agriculture is producing more food per capita than ever before. At the same time, according to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), almost 800...

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Who Will Feed Us? The Industrial Food Chain vs. The Peasant Food Web

1 - Peasants are the main or sole food providers to more than 70% of the world’s people, and peasants produce this food with less (often much less) than 25% of the resources –...

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Introduction to Soil Improvement

The presentation outlines natural methods to improve soil quality. It focuses on using organic matter, microorganisms, and rice husk charcoal to create a healthy, aggregated...

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Biochar, climate change and soilA review to guide future research

Biochar is the charred by-product of biomass pyrolysis, the heating of plant-derived material in the absence of oxygen in order to capture combustible gases. The objective of...

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Building, Defending and Strengthening Agroecology. A Global Struggle for...

"Agroecology is the answer to how to transform and repair our material reality in a food system and rural world that has been devastated by industrial food production and its...

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Agroecology as a Transdisciplinary, Participatory, and Action-Oriented Approach.

This article traces multiple directions in the evolution of agroecology, from its early emphasis on ecological processes in agricultural systems, to its emergence as a...

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Mainstreaming Agroecology Implications for Global Food and Farming Systems

In 2010, the Centre for Agroecology and Food Security (CAFS) was established to undertake applied research and education on agroecology as the underlying paradigm of sustainable...

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Training Handbook: The New EU Organic Regulation (2018/848) for Producer Groups

This training handbook was developed for the certified organic Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, Ethiopia to understand and apply the requirements of the new EU Organic...

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Sustainable Soil Management Course Manual - Part 1, 2, 3

This manual is intended to be used in association with Trust Nature’s Sustainable Soils Management Course and is designed to complement course notes and other course materials....

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Agroecology Now! Transformations Towards More Just and Sustainable Food Systems

This book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It explores the potential of agroecology as a sustainable...

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The 10 elements of Agroecology: Guiding the transition to sustainable food...

This document presents the 10 elements emanated from the FAO regional seminars on Agroecology when Guiding guiding countries to transform their food and agricultural systems, to...

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The World of Organic Agriculture: Statistic and Emerging trends

Organic agriculture is practised in almost 190 countries, and nearly 99 million hectares of agricultural land are managed organically by at least 4.3 million farmers. Global...

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Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)

For centuries, farmers, herders, fishers and foresters have developed diverse and locally adapted agricultural systems managed with time tested, ingenious techniques. These...

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Lessons from Nature - A guide to Ecological Agriculture in the tropics

Over millions of years, nature has built up an intricate system of relationship of exchange and mutual dependence among its elements - land, water, air, forest, sunlight and...

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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...