Agroecology Resources
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The AgroEcology Fund (AEF) is a multi-donor fund supporting agroecological practices and policies. The Fund aims to support viable food systems, promote the economic well-being and human rights of small farmers and their communities, and mitigate climate change through low input agriculture featuring sustainable soil and water use. It links organizations and movements that advance agroecological solutions locally, regionally and globally.
Jairo Restrepo Rivera is an agronomist from the Federal University of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil with three postgraduate courses: Ecology and Natural Resources; Agricultural Occupational Safety and Agroecology Engineering. He has completed 23 international courses in the area of organic agriculture and has published forty scientific papers and technical articles along with sixteen books on organic agriculture. An advisor of several non-governmental organizations, foundations, programs and international cooperations, Rivera also serves as a consultant to the United Nations-UN Organization. His site, Mierda de Vaca contains an assortment of his works and free resources.
In recent years, more than 1,400 participants from 170 countries have been involved in the global effort to discuss and highlight the importance and potential of agroecology. This short article discusses some of the ways that Agroecology can help change the world’s food production for the better.
LEISA India is the regional Indian edition of Agricultures Network of the global LEISA magazines . LEISA India is published by AME Foundation, a development-oriented, non-government organization, committed to improving the livelihoods of resource poor farm families in dry land areas through promotion of ecological agriculture, and in collaboration with ILEIA (1999-2011) and MISEREOR (From 2011 onwards).
Community Agroecology Network (CAN) is an international organization actively working in eight regions of Mexico and Central America to confront social, economic, and environmental injustice through research, education, and action.
Videos
This video explores the different perspectives of food providers on agroecology and the calls from social movements to embed agroecoogy in the struggle for food sovereignty. It focuses on the Declaration of International Forum for Agroecology, which has been advanced by social movements to claim agroecology as a bottom up practice, science and movement and the most important pathway towards a most just, sustainable and viable food and agriculture system.