Decolonizing and Democratizing Food Knowledge Systems

While evidence of the transformative potential of agroecology, regenerative approaches, and Indigenous foodways already exists, action is needed to overcome the politics of knowledge that keep these approaches from being understood, taken up, and acted upon. […]

How Agroecology is Bringing Land Back to Life in Africa

This book show how agroecology nurtures soil health, conserves biodiversity, and restores dignity to Africa’s small-scale food producers. […]

Funding Agroecology the Right Way

This paper offers a series of considerations and recommendations to increase the quantity and quality of funding for agroecology. […]

Bringing Agroecology to Life in Chile

Experiences of applying, replicating, learning, sharing and bringing to life the principles of agroecology in Chile provide important insights for scaling up agroecology. […]

Push-Pull Intercropping System Improves Soil Microbiome and Plant Productivity

This study found that the push-pull system of maize–Desmodium intercropping diversifies fungal microbiomes and favors taxa associated with important ecosystem functions including plant health, productivity and food safety. […]

Sustainable Organic Agriculture Reaps Rewards for Farmers in Zambia

Sustainable organic agriculture in Zambia has improved crop resilience to pests and climate impacts as well as the livelihoods, diets and food security of farming households. […]

Regulatory Elements to Phase-out Pesticides Based on Human Rights Obligations

This paper provides an initial set of elements for regulatory processes, based on states’ human rights obligations, to ban Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs), phase out other pesticides and transition to agroecology. […]

Seven Calls to Transform Food Systems

Seven calls to action for a transition towards more sustainable food systems by addressing the critical underlying structures that hold back much-needed food systems transformation. […]

Agroecological Family Farm Initiatives Built Food Resilience During Covid-19 in Latin America

In Latin America, family farming initiatives and the agroecology movement contributed organizational and capacity development among producers and consumers during the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting the key role played by local food systems and value chains, and the need to strengthen them through public policies. […]

Reforming Financing to Truly Enable Agroecology

This policy briefing makes the case for reforming the way agricultural and food systems development is financed, in order to support transformation in food systems through agroecology. […]