In late November, members of the German NGO Forum on Environment and Development ran the second edition of the “Agroecology Day” in Berlin/Germany, featuring lively exchange, new ideas and the urge to move ahead.
Food and nutrition security in Africa is undergoing a fundamental policy shift away from input subsidies and towards soil health and socio-ecological resilience. Our author gives an account of recent developments.
While agroecological solutions exist at farm level, scaling them to broader food, land and water systems entails many hurdles. The CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology was launched in order to clear them. Based on their…
Frequently, enterprises operating in line with the 13 principles of agroecology lack early-stage support and face misconceptions about their scalability. The Business Agroecology Criteria Tool (B-ACT) of the Swiss…
In their half-term review of the “Traffic Light Coalition”, Germany’s Social Democrat/Green/Free Democrat government, a broad spectrum of organisations and associations take a look at the Federal Government’s…
Agroecological food system transformation has been identified as one solution to repair the broken global food system. However, in-depth evidence of the agroecological status, based on the ten elements of agroecology,…
Given the urgency of transforming agricultural and food systems, the Food Systems and Agroecology Working Group of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit(GIZ) in India is exploring the potential of…
Should mineral fertiliser use be increased in sub-Saharan Africa? A team of African and European agronomists provide a nuanced response to this question in an article published in Outlook on Agriculture. Their analysis…
Federal Development Minister Svenja Schulze and Federal Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir have announced Germany’s joining the world-wide Agroecology Coalition. One of its aims is to support partner countries in…
Our authors take a look at different cacao farming systems. They explore what sustainable cacao farming can look like and explain why agroforestry systems play a crucial role.
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