Agroecology Provides Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation

A guidebook on technologies for climate change adaptation in the agriculture sector showcasing 22 adaptation technologies, which are based primarily on the principles of agroecology. […]

Ecological Agriculture Urgently Needed to Face Climate and Hunger Crisis

This report highlights how climate change, pressure on ecosystem resources and rising food prices pose challenges. What is needed is greater investment in sustainable small-scale farming, which is climate resilient, renews ecosystems and reduces hunger. […]

Ecological Agriculture is Climate Resilient

This TWN briefing paper argues that ecological agriculture is climate resilient and is central to agricultural adaptation. It sets out what efforts are needed to facilitate the transition to ecological agriculture. […]

Time to Act on Sustainable Agriculture

This document outlines the key actions that are needed to transform existing industrial food systems and other unsustainable practices, to viable food systems based on agroecological and other forms of sustainable production. […]

Linking Food and Climate Change

Measures taken to restructure agriculture and the larger food system around food sovereignty, small scale farming, agro-ecology and local markets, could be a key driver of solutions to climate change […]

30-year Study Shows Organic Outperforms Conventional

Scientific side-by-side comparisons in the Rodale Institute’s Farming Systems Trial (FST) over 30 years has provided clear evidence that organic agriculture is far superior to conventional systems. […]

Climate Change and Food Systems Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

Climate Change and Food Systems Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa, a FAO book co-published with TWN and the Institute for Sustainable Development, Ethiopia showcases the successes of ecological agriculture, in providing food security and rural livelihood. […]

Small-Scale Sustainable Agriculture Key to Global Food Security

According to the United Nations’ World Economic and Social Survey 2011, a transformation from the predominant large-scale and intensive systems of agriculture towards small-scale sustainable agriculture is urgently needed. […]

The High Costs of GM Soy

GM soy may be the “green gold” for some but it is also the source of despair to many living in its midst and to the environment. […]

Participatory Research and Agricultural Biodiversity in Europe

IIED report calls for a shift in research and policy priorities from a near exclusive focus on monocultures to whole farm agroecological approaches and to safeguard the biological diversity upon which food supplies depend. […]