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Brazil: Agroecology as a Climate Solution Based on Territory

Published: 3 March 2025

Background

The concept of land liberation through agroecology includes, in turn, the freedom of forests, in opposition to forms of privatization, commodification, and financialization of nature that reduce forests to mere credits.

By Ariana Gomes, Diogo Cabral and Pedro Martins

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Steps and Missteps of Agroecology in Public Policies in Brazil

Published: 28 February 2025

Background

Brazil's pioneering National Agroecology and Organic Production Policy offers valuable lessons, highlighting both achievements and challenges in advancing agroecology. Despite setbacks, its progress remains essential for systemic transformation.

By Paulo Petersen

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Western Anatolia: Agroecological Knowledge Systems in Practice

Published: 25 February 2025

Background

Knowledge about how to farm is never static, it shifts with changing realities. In the Anatolian village of Karagömlek, rural depopulation and industrial inputs reshape local farming. This article explores, why Agroecology offers a critical perspective for the future.

By Simon Popay

Agroecology as an Open-Source Technology: Progress Conceived Collectively

Published: 4 February 2025

Background

A research project in the Greek mountains shows what open source technologies and agroecology have in common. And why combining the two approaches could mean a better future for isolated rural regions around the world.

By Alex Pazaitis

Vorstellung der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette des VORWERTS Projektes bei einer Bildungsveranstaltung im Rahmen des Großraumentdeckerfestes 2024, im Bild die Mühle mit der Weizen mit Brucherbsen sowie reine Erbsen vermahlen wurde.

Sustainable Food Systems in Germany: Combining Organic Agriculture and Agroecology

Published: 3 February 2025

Background

While organic farming has a long-standing tradition in Germany, agroecology remains less known. How could a combination of the two approaches drive the urgently needed transformation of food systems?

By Tina Marie Jahn and Anke Kähler

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Towards a Paradigm Shift: How Women Create Agroecology in Central and Eastern Europe

Published: 24 January 2025

Background

The number of farmers in Poland is declining, but fortunately there is one group in rural areas that is trying to build farms based on new principles. These are young women who embody the ideas of agroecology: diversification of production, rural cooperation and care for the environment.

By Ruta Śpiewak and Klaudia Kryńska

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Land Use in NDCs: A Guide to High Ambition

Published: 29 October 2024

Guide

This guide identifies twelve ‘implementation areas’ in forestry, agriculture, land tenure, and other land uses that should be addressed in nationally determined contributions (NDCs).

By Peter Riggs

Stories About Bread: Finding Ways Out of the Crisis (Chapter 3)

Published: 24 June 2024

Story

Countries could reduce the dangerous dependence on fluctuating world market prices by building up buffer stocks. Public food stocks such as those in Brazil stabilise prices and markets. Initiatives are fighting for food sovereignty worldwide.

By Inka Dewitz, Lena Luig and Ines Meier

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Shaping a Future-Fit Common Agricultural Policy

Published: 26 November 2024

Policy Paper

For more than half a century, the European Union's agricultural policy has focussed primarily on increasing agricultural productivity and the cost-effective production of food. This policy paper provides recommendations for action that are largely possible without amending the EU treaties.

By Phillip Brändle

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Buffer Stocks against Inflation

Published: 18 June 2024

Policy Paper

The build-up of national, regional and global public buffer stocks for food can help stabilise prices on global agricultural markets and limit inflation.

By Isabella M. Weber, Merle Schulken, Lena Bassermann, Lena Luig and Jan Urhahn

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Implementation of a ban on the export of certain hazardous pesticides from Germany

Published: 20 February 2023

Legal opinion

The German government has announced it will implement an export ban on certain hazardous pesticides. A draft of the implementation policy will be presented during the spring of 2023.

By Mirka Fries and Ida Westphal

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Effects of a change to fallow land in the EU on the global grain market

Published: 8 April 2022

Due to the war in Ukraine, grain prices have risen sharply. But a reduction in fallow land in the EU would only have a minor effect on the world market price for grain. Therefore, it would be better to provide financial aid to the most vulnerable countries.

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A Societal Transformation Scenario for Staying Below 1.5°C

Published: 16 November 2021

Study

The Societal Transfomation Scenario is a global 1.5°C mitigation scenario that challenges the notion of continued global economic growth and its compatibility with ambitious climate targets such as the 1.5°C limit. This summary brings together all the key points.

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Power Poverty Hunger

Published: 7 September 2021

It is possible to create sustainable, just and healthy food systems. For this to happen, it is key to strengthen political structures that truly focus on the right to food, on healthy nutrition, and on protecting biodiversity and the climate.

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Meat Atlas 2021

Published: 7 September 2021

Atlas

There is hardly any other food that pollutes our environment and the climate as badly as meat. However, no government in the world currently has a concept of how meat consumption and production can be significantly reduced.

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A Societal Transformation Scenario for Staying Below 1.5°C

Published: 9 December 2020

The „Societal Transfomation Scenario“ is a global 1.5°C mitigation scenario, which challenges the notion of perpetual global economic growth and its compatibility with ambitious climate goals like the 1.5°C limit. It shows how through a reduction of production and consumption in the Global North, we can stay below 1.5°C without resorting to high-risk technologies like CCS, geoengineering and nuclear, while also avoiding temperature overshoot.

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Agriculture

Dossiers

Agroecology: Our Roots of Change

Stories About Bread: The Art of Baking, Uprisings, Power and Prices

The Insect Atlas 2020

Articles

Brazil: Agroecology as a Climate Solution Based on Territory

Steps and Missteps of Agroecology in Public Policies in Brazil

Western Anatolia: Agroecological Knowledge Systems in Practice

Agroecology as an Open-Source Technology: Progress Conceived Collectively

Sustainable Food Systems in Germany: Combining Organic Agriculture and Agroecology

Towards a Paradigm Shift: How Women Create Agroecology in Central and Eastern Europe

Land Use in NDCs: A Guide to High Ambition

Stories About Bread: Finding Ways Out of the Crisis (Chapter 3)

Publications

Shaping a Future-Fit Common Agricultural Policy

Buffer Stocks against Inflation

Implementation of a ban on the export of certain hazardous pesticides from Germany

Effects of a change to fallow land in the EU on the global grain market

A Societal Transformation Scenario for Staying Below 1.5°C

Power Poverty Hunger

Meat Atlas 2021

A Societal Transformation Scenario for Staying Below 1.5°C

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