The paper is a product of a broad civil society consultation process, facilitated by the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition.
The paper was intended to be presented at the 41st session of the Committee on World Food Security. Read more
Agroecological research: Conforming – or transforming the dominant agro-food regime?
ABSTRACT
Agroecology has three practical forms—a scientific discipline, an agricultural practice, and a social movement. Their integration has provided a collective-action mode for contesting the dominant agro-food regime and creating alternatives, especially through a linkage with food sovereignty. Read more
Climate Resilience Sustainable Agriculture Experiences
This document summarises case studies from ten countries through ActionAid’s approach to climate resilient sustainable agriculture, which incorporates agroecology in a human rights framework. Based on these experiences ActionAid recommends to increase investment in agroecology, as part of a comprehensive human rights based approach: Read more
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. A coup for corporate capital?
This report explores the ways in which global corporations are influencing development agendas in Africa, and the faulty rhetoric that underpins their vision of development. Small farmers produce 80% of the food consumed in Africa today Read more
With Climate Chaos, Who Will Feed Us? The Industrial Food Chain or the Peasant Food Web?
This short report compares the industrial food system with peasant farming. Industrial farming gets all the attention (and most of the land). Read more
Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland
It is commonly heard today that small farmers produce most of the world’s food. But how many of us realise that they are doing this with less than a quarter of the world’s farmland, and that even this meagre share is shrinking fast? Read more
Reclaiming Agricultural Investment
Towards Public-Peasant Investment Synergies
This report argues that there is a need to ‘reboot’ the debate on agricultural investment, away from the narrow corporate centric perspective, towards maximising synergies between public investments and the investments made by small- scale food producers.
Policy Shift. Investing in Agricultural Aletrnatives
Policy Shift identifies ten key policy changes that are required to support just alternative agriculture investments. The approach integrates human rights into the core of decision-making and is informed by practical, on-the-ground examples of positive agricultural investments that benefit both small-scale farmers and communities.
Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change
The white paper, Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change: A Down-to-Earth Solution to Global Warming, is issued by Rodale Institute, an independent nonprofit agricultural research institute based in the U.S.
It focuses on the regenerative organic agriculture’s role in reversing both climate issues and food insecurity. Read more
Mainstreaming Agroecology: Implications for Global Food and Farming Systems
The Centre for Agroecology and Food Security (UK) has just released a Discussion Paper on the principles and practices of agroecology and how mainstreaming them can potentially meet the challenges facing agriculture and food production. Read more