Diversified Traditional Food Systems Can Overcome Malnutrition in India

Traditional knowledge together with developments in agroecology, with their diverse systems of resource governance, knowledge, innovation, distribution and access, can overcome widespread malnutrition in India. […]

Agroecological Innovation to Transform Agriculture and Achieve Food Sovereignty

This paper provides policy recommendations to create an enabling environment to unlock the transformative power of agroecology and its innovations and practices, in the achievement of food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture and food systems. […]

French Study Finds Lower Cancer Risk Among High Organic Food Consumers

A study of 68,946 French adults found a 25% lower overall cancer risk among those consuming organic food most regularly compared to those who reported very little or no consumption of organic food. […]

Agroecology Shows Full Potential to Deliver Sustainable Food Systems

There is strong evidence of agroecology’s potential to deliver sustainable food systems by increasing farmers’ economic viability and income, farm productivity and diversity, food/nutritional security, and promoting social change and women’s empowerment. […]

The Future of Agriculture: New technologies or Agroecology?

This article discusses the battle for the future of agriculture: artificial food produced by robots and corporations that put profits before people, or one where agroecological innovations nourish our communities in a fair and sustainable way. […]

The Potential of Agroecology to Transform the Global Food System

This publication on agroecology features its many successes as a road map for a socially and ecologically sustainable transformation of agriculture and provides pathways to overcome the political obstacles to its broad-scale implementation. […]

Farmer-Managed Seed Systems Play Crucial Role in Africa

Farmer-managed seed systems play a crucial role in Africa and small-scale farmers are the real custodians of seed on the continent. […]

Transforming Land Use and Food Systems Has Mitigation Potential of 23 Gt CO2-eq Per Year by 2050

A new report shows how greater ambition to secure land rights, restore forest ecosystems and move towards sustainable food systems can provide ‘missing pathways’ toward limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C. […]

Agroecological Transitions Away from Industrial Food and Farming Systems

Seven case studies analysed by IPES-Food provide concrete examples of how, in spite of barriers to change, people around the world have been able to fundamentally rethink and redesign food systems around agroecological principles. […]

Rural Women in Paraguay on the Frontlines to Save Native Seed Varieties

Rural and indigenous women in Paraguay rise up to collect and preserve native seeds across the country to counter the expansion of large-scale, industrial agriculture. […]