Agroecology

For several decades, the organisation AS-PTA has been campaigning for sustainable rural development and family farming in a number of Brazilian Federal States. Knowledge exchange between farmers plays a crucial role in…

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Agroecology

Sufficient and healthy food for everyone that is produced by people who can earn a good living without looting the planet – we won’t achieve this goal without transforming agriculture, be it industrial or…

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Agroecology

Today, consumers are charged more for organic food than for conventionally produced food. But given the latter’s ecological footprint, this ought to be the other way round, our author of the Swiss Agency for Development…

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Agroecology

Early in 2017, the German Agricultural Society (DLG) publicly announced ten theses on agriculture in 2030. Experts from various professions in agriculture and stakeholders in other areas thus defined a position in…

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Agroecology

Given the well-documented advantages of agro-ecological systems both for human beings and for the environment, they should really have found much swifter and more comprehensive application than has been the case. Our…

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Agroecology

Civil society organisations throughout Africa are campaigning for agroecologial and indigenous approaches to maintain food sovereignty. But their umbrella organisation, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA),…

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Agroecology

In both developed and developing countries, policy stakeholders are tussling with the question of whether to promote agroecological intensification or sustainable agricultural intensification to deal with the multiple…

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Agroecology

Agroecology embraces a collection of different disciplinary fields, ranging from agriculture and ecology to political theory. A stronger recognition of agroecology in agricultural research, which often has a strong…

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