Traditional Fisheries Management & Coral Reefs
A 2012 study of successful fisheries management by the Wildlife Conservation Society finds that coral reefs in Aceh, Indonesia, are benefiting from a local, low-tech and traditional management system...
View ArticleCommunity Mangrove Rehabilitation
Vietnam’s coastal communities are threatened by an average of four typhoons per year. A system of sea dykes located behind the coastal mangroves have been built to protect the coastline. Mangrove...
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Association Consortium for Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Areas...
ICCA Consortium banner. Photo credit: ICCA Consortium The ICCA Consortium is a non-profit association that works at local, national and international levels to promote recognition of indigenous...
View ArticleInternational Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) is the international umbrella organization of institutions and groups working in the organic field. IFOAM represents almost 800...
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Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM)
PELUM Association logo. Photo credit: PELUM Kenya Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) is a network of over 220 civil society organizations in 10 countries in east, central and southern...
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Bioimpuls – Participatory Breeding and Benefit Sharing in potato production...
Bionica Potato. Photo Credit: : Niek Vos In the Netherlands, farmers, researchers from Wageningen University and the Louis Bolk Institute and commercial breeders collaborate in an organic potato...
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Shashe Agroecology School, Zimbabwe
“For the farmer, seeing is believing.” Photo credit: AFSA Farmer-to-farmer exchanges are a key method in education for agroecology. In 2000, a group of twelve smallholder families set up a...
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Organic soil fertility promotion in Kenya
“We have opened an organic hotel where we are selling what we are producing from our farm.” Photo credit: AFSA Excessive use of agrochemicals and problems with soil management have led to land...
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Agroecological diversification for home and market in Zimbabwe
Photo credit: AFSA A growing demand for organic produce in Zimbabwe was being met by South African imports. Meanwhile, Zimbabwe’s resource-poor smallholders remained net recipients of food aid. An...
View ArticleHealthy soils
Soils filter water, store carbon and host one-quarter of the world’s biodiversity, making its preservation “essential for food security and our sustainable future” as noted by the UN’s Food and...
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