FAO Nicaragua and FAO experts on Agroecology, Emma Siliprandi and Arnoldo Anacleto together with the Ministry of Agriculture of Nicaragua and the National System of Production, Consumption and Commerce are working on the updating of the national agroecology policy of Nicaragua by integrating gender, education and market-based incentives.

The UN General Assembly declared on 1 March 2019 that the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to massively scale up the restoration of degraded and destroyed ecosystems as a proven measure to fight the climate crisis and enhance food security, water supply and biodiversity, and can prevent conflict and migration triggered by environmental degradation.

The Decade, a global call to action, will draw together political support, scientific research and financial muscle to massively scale up restoration from successful pilot initiatives to areas of millions of hectares.

The group ‘’Jornada de Agroecología’’ composed by a wide range of actors committed to agroecology celebrated this event for defending a land free of transgenics and no pesticides, caring for the earth, cultivating biodiversity and harvesting food sovereignty, and building the popular project for agriculture.

A wide range of professors from University of California Berkeley (USA), Universidade Estadual Paulista (Brazil) and Universidad de Chile among others will drive the School by tackling issues like the role of biodiversity in the functioning of agroecosystems and the tools on how to manage the transition from conventional to agroecological systems. The participation is free and the school will offer also a practical experience by learning the agroecological practices used by the locals.