How Agroecology Can Achieve Sustainable Development in the Global South

Projects in the Global South showcase how agroecology benefits the most disadvantaged and provides local solutions for sustainable agriculture on the principles of empowerment, action, resilience and integration. […]

UN Report: Pesticides Detrimental to the Rights to Food and Health, Agroecology Needed Instead

A report by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the right to food declares pesticides detrimental to the rights to food and health. It calls for a move away from industrial agriculture and the promotion of agroecology instead. […]

Agroecology: The Bold Future of Farming in Africa

This publication highlights the huge potential of agroecology to feed Africa, fix broken food systems and repair damaged landscapes, providing abundant healthy and nutritious food sustainably while increasing incomes and improving climate resilience. […]

Industrial Meat and Dairy Production Driving Deforestation and Climate Change

The industrial livestock industry is a major contributor to forest loss and climate change. A reduction in meat consumption by rich countries and a global transition to agroecology, agroforestry, and extensive traditional pastoralist practices are needed. […]

Agroecological Systems Are Resilient – Industrial Monocultures Are Not

Industrial agriculture is vulnerable and unsustainable, and only a wholesale shift to diversified agroecological systems can bring food security, environmental and livelihood resilience, nutritional adequacy and social equity. […]

An Agroecological Revolution Not a Green Revolution Will Feed Africa

This paper makes a compelling case that it is an Agroecological Revolution, with small-scale farmers at the centre, that will feed Africa rather than a corporate-driven Green Revolution with GM crops. […]

First Map of Smallholder Farms in Developing Countries Shows They Supply Most of the Food

The first map of smallholder farms in developing countries shows that more than 380 million small farms produce more than half the world’s food calories. […]

Recommendations to Take Agroecology Forward in Europe and Central Asia

Recommendations from the FAO’s regional symposium on agroecology in Europe and Central Asia to take agroecology forward in the region. […]

Biocultural Innovation Crucial to Climate Change Resilience

Traditional communities in Peru and China have developed numerous effective biocultural or traditional knowledge innovations to strengthen their resilience to climate change. […]

‘Organic 3.0’ – A Lighthouse for Truly Sustainable Agriculture

‘Organic 3.0’ is meant to be more ecologically sound, economically viable, socially just, culturally diverse, and transparently accountable; and will enable the uptake of truly sustainable farming systems and markets based on organic principles. […]