Despite the difficult times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr. Ajay Rattan, a farmer from Bilaspur district in Himachal Pradesh, has become a role model for other farmers' region. To overcome the local market disruption by COVID-19, he grew vegetables and food grains according to his consumers' needs in compliance with agroecological principles. Such a shift has reduced Ajay's production and marketing risks, demonstrating that polyculture and agrobiodiversity can improve farmers' future performance.

A revolution paradigm is needed to establish the required knowledge systems to attain food sovereignty and agroecology. This concept entails constructing technical and policy-related knowledge that is actively shaped by food producers and consumers. This publication proposes a two-dimensional approach to mechanize the transmission of knowledge, with interesting examples that can be improved: the strengthening of horizontal networks of grassroots self-managed research and innovation; and the fundamental transformation and democratization of public research institutions and universities. 

The current climate alteration situation prevails in most countries, the need to change the agricultural production systems, especially in the Latin American region. This edition of LEISA presents articles on responses to climate change, addressing the importance of integrated management of significant ecosystems, and the need to conserve the biodiversity of agroecosystems, and how these proposals are compatible with the economic growth of farming families.

This handbook is written for "sustainable food systems innovators" by a group of innovators from Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, leading initiatives to grow, share, sell and consume more sustainable foods in their local contexts. It includes experiences that are changing the organizational structures of local food systems to make them more sustainable. The handbook covers specific categories of innovations by engaging consumers, producing sustainably, obtaining products to market, and getting organized.

The Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention aims to continue during November, reinforcing its parties' technical capacities through a series of virtual training on pesticide risk assessment, severely hazardous pesticide formulations (SHPF), and the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) circular.