Interesting experience of Famers Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) as transition to ecological farming, particularly in the Sahel. The network “Africa Regreening Initiative” is actively developing innovative ways to scale out this approach and other agreoecological techniques, across the Sahel and beyond.

This publication originated at an international workshop held at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in New Haven, USA, April 15-17, 2004. It was published jointly, in Spanish and English, by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (Yale F&ES).

The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Development and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy have produced a new report documenting successful approaches in three countries: Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia. The three case studies presented in this report represent successful approaches, both in terms of the techniques they have applied, and because of the active involvement of farmers’ organizations in changing the policies needed to ensure their success.

The Integrated Bioeconomy System (IBS) as developed and practiced by Bioeconomy Africa is a process of farmer training based on sound ecological principles which, through minimal external inputs, results in dramatically increased farm yields. It was initiated in Ethiopia. Currently over forty thousand model farmers from various parts of Africa have been trained.

In Latin America agroecology has been transformed into the fundamental scientific base for the development of farming systems that conserve natural resources, increase security and, at the same time, the social and cultural empowerment of farmers. One of the key challenges in promoting rural development alternatives is to evaluate whether these strategies actually move their communities towards sustainability.

The agro-ecological revolution in Latin America: rescuing nature, ensuring food sovereignty and empowering peasants.
The Journal of Peasant Studies Vol. 38, No. 3, July 2011, 587ﾖ612

Concerning how African branch of La Via Campesina (LVC) pledges to build food sovereignty from below by promoting agroecology in the region of Southern, Eastern and Central Africa.

Con la colaboración de Clara Inés Nicholls, este texto recopila y sistematiza estudios y publicaciones recientes de Miguel Altieri, pionero en este nuevo campo del conocimiento y promotor de las prácticas de la agroecología.

Special issue on Agroecology and food crisis / Numero especial sobre agroecologia y crisis alimentaria

En este documento se muestra el potencial de la agroecología para promover cambios sociales y agrarios trascendentes encaminados a la sustentabilidad a partir de proyectos, iniciativas y movimientos de inspiración agroecológica en Brasil, la region Andina, México, Centroamérica y Cuba. Estos cambios abren nuevos derroteros politicos para las sociedades agrarias de Latinoamérica y conforman una alternativa totalmente opuesta a las políticas neoliberales basadas en la agroindustria y en las roexportaciones.