FAO Agroecology Newsletter

January 2021 / Issue #43

 

Latest from HEADQUARTERS

Assessing Transitions to Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems: Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE)

Seventy representatives of agroecology-related organizations worldwide participated in developing TAPE to produce and consolidate evidence on agroecological systems' multidimensional performances.

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Latest from AFRICA

Case studies of agroecology

This series of case studies by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) shows how agroecology is beneficial for Africa in food security, nutrition, poverty reduction, climate change adaptation, and mitigation.

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Latest from Asia and the Pacific

Fusing Himachal’s Natural Farming Mission To Agro-Ecotourism

Natural Farming applied in Himachal Pradesh, India is a sustainable agroecological practice that minimizes the cost of cultivation, sustains soil fertility, reduce water requirement and enhance farmers’ income.

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Latest from Europe

Financing and Resourcing agroecology

This report looks critically at the role of public and philanthropic donors in enabling agroecology transitions. It investigate the quantity of funding going to agroecology and the funding delivery quality allocated to agroecology.

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Latest from LATIN AMERICA

Agroecological transition in the Andean region 

This publication is an initial assessment of 6 years of support to peasant families in the Huánuco region, Peru, and highlight the various obstacles for agroecology to consolidate itself as a sustainable alternative for small-scale family farmers.

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PUBLICATIONS

Restoring land health for sustainable agriculture

This report highlights the immense potential of widespread adoption of sustainable agricultural practices for secure, long-term food, feed, fiber, and energy production. It also emphasizes that ecosystem services derived from healthy soils are not limited to the farm.
 

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Gender, COVID-19, and Food Systems

This report summarizes research around the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on women in and across the constituencies and regions of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSM) for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS).

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VIDEOS

Sustainable trade for sustainable food systems

This video produced by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) shows the hidden costs of export industries (e.g., biodiversity loss, biodegradation and greenhouse gas emissions, social inequalities, etc.) and proposes alternative solutions favoring small-scale local economies producers.​​​​​

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INNOVATIONS

Sino-EU Soil Observatory for Intelligent Land Use Management

The Observatory platform will support the effective management of soil at the field level across the European Union and China via open-source data with the final target to increase land and water productivity sustainably and reduce crop yield variability.

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OPEN CALLS

Inspiring and practical examples for a shared organic vision in Europe

The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM Organics Europe) initiative showcases inspiring and practical examples that are putting the roadmap strategies to achieve Vision 2030 into action.

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LATEST FROM PARTNERS

Enhancing Agricultural Biodiversity through new agreements

This first article of the new section of "Agroecology Now!" announces new ways of working with nature, driven by peasants, indigenous peoples, and other food producers.

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WEBINAR RECORDINGS

Shifting European Finance towards Food System Transformation

The webinar presents recent findings from several studies on the contribution of European bilateral and multilateral funding flows to agriculture and food systems, focusing on agroecology support.

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Research and Training Programme on Andean Agroecological Systems

This webinar presents recent research results conducted by the McKnight Foundation and the Latin American Social Science Council (CLACSO) on integrating agroecological principles in managing agriculture and systems in the high mountains of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

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