Sober Warning on Agrofuels

GRAIN warns that this rush into agrofuels is causing enormous environmental and social damage. Also, figures show that the contribution of agrofuels to combat climate change is not likely to be significant. […]

Organic and Diverse Non-Rice Food Systems

This is a summary report which provides an example of an organic and diverse food system in a village in Indonesia. It is a paper submitted to the FAO’s conference on organic agriculture and food security, […]

Organic Agroforestry Benefits Farming Families in Timor, Indonesia

A summary report by Yayasan Mitra Tani Mandiri (YMTM), Yayasan An Feot Ana (YAFA) and TWN on the results of an organic agroforestry programme in Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. […]

Organic Agriculture Can Address Food Security, says FAO

Press articles relating to the International Conference on Organic Agriculture and Food Security, held at the FAO in Rome from 3-5 May 2007. […]

Organic Agriculture: Proven But Needs Political Support

Report on the International Conference on Organic Agriculture and Food Security, organized by the FAO in Rome, Italy on 3-5 May 2007. […]

Sustainable Agriculture Increases Crop Yields in Tigray, Ethiopia

The report documents the results of a 10-year experiment in sustainable development and ecological land management in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. […]

Sustainable Agriculture: Critical Ecological, Social & Economic Issues

Various ecological, social and economic challenges must be addressed if agriculture is to be truly sustainable. This briefing discusses the choices facing developing countries and policy makers, and suggests some ways forward. […]

Feeding the world?

Jules Pretty, Director of the Centre for Environment and Society at the University of Essex, examines the myths and realities of sustainable farming’s quiet revolution […]

Coexistence of Agricultural Production Systems

The report concludes that voluntary GMO-free zones might be a tool for sustainable co-existence. […]

Yields rose 79% from sustainable agriculture in South

A study published in the journal ‘Environmental Science & technology’ suggests that poor farmers in developing countries can increase agricultural productivity by adopting “resource-conserving” or sustainable agriculture. […]