Agroecology News

Based on traditional knowledge, agroecology is a sustainable and productive agriculture method that can solve multiple challenges at once, from food insecurity to biodiversity loss and climate change, as the IPCC has also stated. Agroecology encompasses a wide range of techniques ranging from agroforestry to seed saving, fish ponds and natural fertilizer production.

How the Zai farming technique is transforming soil fertility in North Cameroon

Agroforestry offers Thai rubber farmers a pathway to profit and sustainability

Biochar could play big role in Bhutan’s carbon storage — but it’s news to farmers

Photos: Exploring Mexico City’s Aztec-era farms, the chinampas

Tackling climate change in one of Colombia’s largest wetlands

Shade-grown coffee benefits birds, forests & people in Venezuela

Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley

Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution

In highly urbanized Japan, city farmers are key to achieving organic goal

Florida growers eye agroecology solution to devastating citrus disease

New U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand ‘climate-smart’ acres

Oman’s mountain oases offer ancient farming lessons for a warming future

Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout

Report calls for agroecological rethink of Africa’s food amid $61b industrial plan

Breadfruit’s low carbon storage could be offset by fast growth, study finds

Agroecological solutions better than pesticides in fighting fall armyworm, experts say

Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back a turtle

Indigenous Zenú turn to ancestral seeds, agroecology to climate-proof their farming

Caribbean traditional plant knowledge needs recognition or it’s lost: Study

Bangladeshi farmers eye moringa as a climate and economic solution

Sumatra coffee farmers brew natural fertilizer as inflation bites

Indigenous Gurung farmers revive climate-resilient millet in Nepal

Some hemp with your wine? Study shows better soil, potentially flavors from intercropping

Indigenous farmers’ hard work protects a Philippine hotspot, but goes overlooked

Battling desertification: Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain

Cacao and cupuaçu emerge as Amazon’s bioeconomy showcases

Salinity hinders Bangladesh agriculture; groups respond with seeds & information

Can agroforestry chocolate help save the world’s most endangered rainforest?

DRC food sovereignty summit yields support for agroecology, local land rights

Agroecology alliance calls for more food at less cost to nature in Congo Basin

In Philippines, climate change tests Indigenous farming like never before

Morocco rolls out a phosphorous-fueled plan to heal soils across Africa

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