Agroecology: Our Roots of Change Published: 20 January 2025 Dossier Agroecology is increasingly recognized as a powerful response to today’s interlinked crises - environmental degradation, climate change, and deepening social inequalities. This dossier explores how agroecology redefines food systems and promotes people’s agency.
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
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
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 in the Context of Lebanon’s Economic, Destructive Wars, and Neoliberal Policies Published: 7 February 2025 Background Under the hurdles of neoliberal policies, violent economic collapse, and for the past year and more, an extremely destructive war, where does agroecology fit in Lebanon’s landscape? The NGO JIBAL attempts to answer this question. By HBS Beirut Enviromental Justice Programme
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
Without Feminism, There is no Agroecology Published: 4 February 2025 Background It is impossible to imagine a just, sustainable, and diverse future that does not include women, and especially rural women, as they are the ones leading the transformation of the agrifood system in Latin America.
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
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