Resources Tagged: Agroecology

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  1. Assessing Transitions to Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems: A Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE)

    Abstract, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 December There is increasing interest in agroecology as a way to move toward more sustainable agriculture and food systems. However, the evidence of agroecology's contribution to sustainability remains fragmented because of heterogeneous...
    Agricultural Research Land Tenure Agroecology

  2. Macho Sauti: ICT Platform for Agroecology

    2021-09-28
    Agroecology East Africa

  3. Promoting Biodiversity on Maize Smallholdings

    2020-04-14 In East Africa, agricultural practices to maximize production have greatly diminished biodiversity, reducing the functioning of ecosystem services valuable to human and landscape health. Primary research about the impact of avian biodiversity on crop production in maize fields in Arusha, Tanzania...
    Biodiversity Conse... Biodiversity-Study... Agrobiodiversity c... Agrobiodiversity Birds-Ecology Ecosystem Services Agroecology Birds-Environmenta... Bird Attracting East Africa

  4. Farmer-led research on agroecology and nutrition in Malawi and Tanzania

    2017-11-15 Agroecology is a holistic approach to farming which takes into account social, environmental, and health concerns of food production. A long-term participatory research project with smallholder farmers in Malawi and Tanzania using agroecology will be discussed. In this research project, farmers...
    Agroecology Ecology

  5. AN Issue #34 Special Edition

    2017-12-12 Conference Proceedings The 6th Biennial ECHO Asia Agriculture and Community Development Conference Editors’ Note In an effort to expand the dissemination of technical materials and best practices presented during this year’s ECHO Asia Agriculture & Community Development Conference, the ECHO...
    Wild Plants Wild Food Participatory Methods Agriculture Extension Agroecology Agrotourism SRI System Of Rice... Asia

  6. EDN Issue #138

    2018-01-31 Yellow Shoot, Green Fruit: Citrus Greening Disease EIAC 2017 Topic Summaries Echoes from our Network: edible insect feedback From ECHO's Seed Bank: Tree Lucerne(Tagasaste),multipurpose forage crop for the highlands eBook Release: Agricultural Options for Small-Scale Farmers
    Citrus Edible Insects Conservation Agric... Biosand Filter Post-conflict Agri... Agroecology Nutrition

  7. 2017 ECHO International Agriculture Conference

    2018-01-31 This article summarizes several of the plenary sessions presented at the 2017 ECHO conference in Florida. If you were unable to attend the conference, or would like to review some of the talks, many of them can be viewed on ECHOcommunity.Other 2017 presentations that appear there include...
    Conservation Agric... Post-conflict Agri... Biosand Filter Agroecology Nutrition

  8. Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE)

    Many farmer experiences with new technologies and promising crops stay just that, experiences, and promises. Implementing and scaling up technologies requires evaluation. Here we highlight a resource called the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE), developed by the Food and...
    Sustainable Agricu... Performance Evalua... FAO Evaluation Agroecology

  9. AFSA Case Studies of Agroecology

    AFSA’s collection of case studies shows how agroecology benefits Africa in terms of food security, nutrition, poverty reduction, climate change adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity conservation, cultural sensitivity, democracy, and value for money. Agroecology works in harmony with nature. It...
    AFSA Indigenous Knowledge Finance Management Biodiversity Conse... Disaster Mitigation Climate Adaptation Climate Change Preventing Poverty Alleviating Poverty Basic Nutrition Food Security Case Studies East Africa Agroecology East Africa

  10. FAO Crop Calendar

    The Crop Calendar is a tool that provides timely information about seeds to promote local crop production. It contains information on planting, sowing and harvesting periods of locally adapted crops in specific agro-ecological zones. It also provides information on the sowing rates of seed and...
    JCB Agroecology Crop Calendar Farming Systems Disaster Mitigation East Africa