Everyone in this society is caught up in the battle between two models of agriculture, writes Blain Snipsta - industrial agribusiness for profit, control and domination; and small-scale agroecological farming for good food, health, people and planet.
… Agroecology and the people's struggle for land … the planet and the people, and with agroecology, we prove it. It is the superior … 80 years old. GMOs are only 18 years old. Agroecology is and has been feeding the world …
Governments must shift subsidies and research funding from agro-industrial monoculture to small farmers using 'agroecological' methods, according to the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. And as Nafeez Ahmed notes, her call coincides with a new agroecology initiative within the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.
… UN: only small farmers and agroecology can feed the world Nafeez Ahmed | … Food Farming Natural World Un Corporations agroecology-ubc-milpa-cut.jpg Governments must … Ahmed notes, her call coincides with a new agroecology initiative within the UN's Food …
While the Gates Foundation and conservative politicians are bigging up GMOs and agribusiness, writes Colin Todhunter, a quiet revolution has been working its way across Africa. Agroecological farming, constantly adapting to local needs, customs, soils and climates, has been improving nutrition, reducing poverty, combatting climate change, and enriching farmland.
… The tremendous success of agroecology in Africa Colion Todhunter | 21st … to feed everybody then alternatives like agroecology may come to the fore. No-one with … for ignoring reality either. The truth - agroecology works! New research by the Oakland …
Green revolution approach of expensive fertilisers and seeds is failing and needs replacing with projects that prevent food waste, build resilience to climate change, and strengthen city farming
… criminalising of seed saving and promotes agroecology Tom Levitt | 13th January 2011 News Agroecology Food And Farming Worldwatch Seeds … waste and city farming As well as promoting agroecology , the report said preventing food …
Corporate interests have skewed the entire development agenda for agriculture in Africa, writes Ian Fitzpatrick. Instead of investing in sustainable, small scale farming along agroecological principles that raise production and support rural communities, governments - including the UK's - are backing destructive industrial farming and land grabs.
… Agroecology can feed Africa - not agribusiness … and communities can be improved, and that agroecology can deliver a huge range of other … that small-scale sustainable farming, or agroecology, can deliver as much if not more …
Low-input farming projects, not reliant on chemical fertilisers and pesticides, have brought significant increases in food production in Africa, south-east Asia and South America, according to a UN report
… Levitt | 8th March 2011 News Food And Farming Agroecology Africa Pesticides Chemicals … African countries, to support a shift towards agroecology to tackle the problems of hunger, … program a few years ago, is now implementing agroecology. The government now subsidises …
It' a perfect win-win solution for World Food Day, writes Kirtana Chandrasekaran: agroecology that sequesters carbon into soils, making them more fertile, productive and resilient, while also supporting sustainable livelihoods and tackling climate change. But instead governments are desperately trying to attract agribusiness investment that does the precise opposite.
… Agroecology cools the planet - so why are … Food Day, writes Kirtana Chandrasekaran: agroecology that sequesters carbon into soils, … reduce emissions and put an end to hunger. Agroecology - an agenda to focus on ecological …
For the women farmers of Tamil Nadu life has long been a struggle, Sheelu Francis told Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau, all the more so following the advent of 'Green Revolution' industrial agriculture. So now women's collectives are organising to restore traditional foods and farming methods, resulting in lower costs, higher yields, improved nutrition, and a rekindling of native Tamil culture.
… Agroecology leading the fight against India's … and a rekindling of native Tamil culture. "Agroecology means that we are free from … of Tamil Nadu in India. The Collective uses agroecology - which they also call 'natural …
GMO enthusiasts insist that organic, agroecological farming could never feed the world, writes Colin Todhunter. But it has been feeding us all for millennia - and it's the only way to continue while enriching the soils and biodiversity on which all farming depends. As Mahatma Gandhi once observed, industrial agriculture is but a nine-day wonder. And its time will soon be up.
… Organic agriculture, agroecology and the parallel reality of the … to promote sustainable systems, not least agroecology, that realise the right to food. … University believes organic approaches like agroecology are not sufficient to feed the …
Among Cuba's greatest achievements is its organic farming sector, writes Miguel Altieri. Developed in the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union, small agroecological farms now employ 300,000 campesinos and provide an abundance of healthy fruit and vegetables. But now US food and agribusiness corporations are eyeing up a multi-billion dollar business opportunity.
… April 2016 News Food Farming CUMA USA Trade Agroecology havana-market-cut.jpg Among Cuba's … instead. For the past 35 years I have studied agroecology in most countries in Central and South America. Agroecology is an approach to farming that …
Industrial agriculture has become a prime driver of many of the world's most serious problems, writes Henrietta Moore: the loss of wild and farmed biodiversity, huge climate-changing emissions, and the entrapment of small farmers in ever-deepening cycles of poverty. But there is a solution: the widespread adoption of agroecological farming.
… Can agroecology save us from 'scorched-earth' … 2015 News Farming Ecology Food Corporations agroecology-china-cut.jpg Industrial … undernourished . The solution? In a word: agroecology So how do we meet the challenge of …
Green Revolution architect Norman Borlaug is credited with 'feeding India'. But the feat took more than hybrid varieties and fertiliser, and it will take a much more sophisticated approach to help Africa feed itself
… doesn't need a green revolution. It needs agroecology Dan Taylor | 23rd September 2009 Comment Food And Farming Agroecology Permaculture Africa Climate Change … Think in systems Agricultural ecology, or agroecology, provides a shorthand for this …
Cuba is a global exemplar of organic, agroecological farming, taking place on broad swathes of land in and around its cities, write Julia Wright & Emily Morris. These farms cover 14% of the country's agricultural land, employ 350,000 people, and produce half the country's fruit and vegetables. But can they survive exposure to US agribusiness?
… opportunity? But Cuba's urban and peri-urban agroecology model may face a threat from the …
Agroecology is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' of agribusiness, biotech, big finance and 'free trade', writes Colin Todhunter, as it represents a truly viable alternative to agriculture for corporate profit. But such are the powers ranged against the world's small farmers that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement.
… stranglehold on food and farming - is agroecology enough? Colin Todhunter | 4th … Mexico Trade Health Society chilis-cut.jpg Agroecology is key to retaking control over … its very design, the system is parasitical. Agroecology as a credible force for change …
'Climate Smart Agriculture' advocates were out in force at the just concluded climate talks in Bonn, writes Pavlos Georgiadis. But their finely crafted corporate message presents a real threat to genuine agroecological solutions to the interlinked food, farming and climate crises.
… To keep carbon in the ground, COP21 must back agroecology Pavlos Georgiadis | 24th October … ever increasing risk of global food crisis. Agroecology: a slow revolution that's gaining … sustainable food debate may have heard about agroecology, many of the negotiators here in …
The recently published Global Nutrition Report shows almost all countries face high levels of malnutrition and diet-based ill-health, writes Julia Wright. This reveals deep problems with the dominant industrial model of food production, and the need for new agroecological approaches to feeding the world.
… Only agroecology can tackle the global food and … in Agroecological Futures at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), …
How we feed ourselves sits at the crux of all human affairs, writes Joanna Wright - the health of our bodies and communities. Far too important to leave to industrial farms and processors, it's something we can all begin to do for ourselves.
… do, begin it." This was Joe's advice to our Agroecology course, after an intensive week of … Sustainable farming is complex, and creative Agroecology refers to an approach to … are tasked with nothing less than shepherding agroecology into cultural relevance and …
The way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology - farming based on ecological principles, taking account of the interdependence of all living things.
… The future is agroecology Colin Tudge Graham Harvey | 6th … people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology - farming based on ecological … Real Farming Conference 2014. A key theme is 'agroecology' - farming that takes its lead …
The state of our soils is an enormous threat to future food security - we need to fully embrace organic methods.
… to know which was which. New terms like “agroecology” were emerging from the older … be maintained. So there’s a lot of talk about agroecology and the soil health it produces – … a lot of apparent agreement. Many agree that agroecology is “an ecosystems approach to …
A radical new Seed Law drafted by Venezuelan people, farmers and NGOs was signed into law in the closing days of 2015, write William Camacaro, Frederick B. Mills & Christina M. Schiavoni. Striking back against the corporate takeover of seeds and peddling of GMOs, the Seed Law bans transgenic seeds, protects the country's germplasm, and establishes the legal foundation for a participatory, agroecological food and farming system.
… a victory for the international movements for agroecology and food sovereignty because it … was held at the Latin American Institute of Agroecology Paulo Freire (IALA) in Barinas …
GM crops may benefit agribusiness, writes Andrew Adam-Bradford. But they offer little to Africa or the millions of farming communities that feed the continent. Rather than impose corporate 'solutions', governments should invest in indigenous agro-ecological farming.
… at the expense of other options such as agroecology and climate smart agriculture … simply to justify the work behind it all. Agroecology - conserving energy, water, nutrients The main ideas within agroecology and climate-smart agriculture are …
Bananas are at the sharp end of industrial agriculture's chemical war on pests and pathogens, writes Angelina Sanderson Bellamy. But even 60 pesticide sprays a year isn't enough to keep the diseases at bay. It's time to seek new solutions with little or no use of chemicals, working with nature, growing diverse crops on the same land - and breaking the dominance of the banana multinationals.
Disease may wipe out the world's bananas - unless we adopt agroecological solutions Angelina Sanderson Bellamy Cardiff University | 7th February 2016 News Farming Food Corporations Health Toxics …
Green revolution is locking African farmers into a system that is not designed for their benefit, but for Northern multinational corporations.
… | News Green Revolution Agriculture Africa Agroecology Food And Farming International … 164 organisations in 73 countries, point to agroecology as the solution . AFSA documents a number of case studies documenting “how agroecology benefits Africa in terms of food …
The Gates Foundation - widely assumed to be 'doing good', is imposing a neoliberal model of development and corporate domination that's opening up Africa's agriculture to land and seed-grabbing global agribusiness, writes Colin Todhunter. In the process it is foreclosing on the real solutions - enhancing food security, food sovereignty and the move to agroecological farming.
… to promote sustainable systems - not least agroecology - that realise the right to food. …