The triple threat of climate change, Covid, and conflict is revealing the inherent fragility of food systems worldwide along with their negative impacts on natural resources as well as their prominent role in worsening climate change and social inequities. Agroecology shows enormous potential for helping address these crises, and the time has come for more concerted action to realize its possibilities.
La iniciativa del CGIAR Nature+ busca reimaginar, co-crear e implementar sistemas agroalimentarios más resilientes y sostenibles. Si observamos bajo la lupa la cadena de producción de alimentos, encontramos sistemas de producción lineales, altamente dependientes de insumos importados y con impactos negativos en la naturaleza causados en gran parte por el manejo que se les da a los residuos en la
Agroecology is gaining momentum. The CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology can be seen as a strong commitment by CGIAR, partners and investors who believe in the potential of agroecology to combat the inherent fragility of food systems worldwide as well as the negative impacts of climate change and conflict over natural resources and social inequities. To date, the initiative unites more
A first seminar in the series: Foster common understanding of agroecology Authors: Chris Dickens, co-lead of the CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology and Simone Staiger, senior knowledge manager A comprehensive undertaking on agroecology as a CGIAR initiative requires a deliberate capacity strengthening effort for its more than 100 collaborating researchers from eight CGIAR centers together with CIFOR – ICRAF, and CIRAD
Authors of this blog post: Chaturangi Wickramaratne (IWMI), Sarah Jones (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Christine Lamanna (CIFOR-ICRAF) and Matthias Geck (CIFOR-ICRAF) The need for a paradigm shift in agriculture is becoming increasingly evident. High-input, simplified or intensive agricultural farms and landscapes fail to achieve food and nutritional security or provide resilience to global shocks, such as climate change. At the same
Authors: Véronique Alary (CIRAD/ICARDA), Frédéric Baudron (CIMMYT), Marcela Beltran (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Thomas Falk (IFPRI), Sarah Freed (WorldFish), Nadia Guettou Djurfeldt (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Guillaume Lestrelin (CIRAD), Sonali Singh (IFPRI), Taurai Zingwena (CIMMYT) Agroecology is about making the most of nature’s goods and services while maintaining ecosystem integrity and improving resource efficiency, strengthening resilience, and securing social equity and responsibility in our
Authors: Manuel Narjes (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Ernesto Parra (Cooperativa Agraria de Cacao Aromático Colpa de Loros) The production of cacao (Theobroma cacao) in agroforestry arrangements is one of the sustainable land use systems conceived within the ecological corridor that is being promoted along the Aguaytía river basin, as part of the Regional Government of Ucayali’s (GOREU) Plan for the Sustainable Economic
Establishing ALLs in Andhra Pradesh for developing innovations, strategies and policies could help address the challenges in India. Authors: Sudharsan Malaiappan1, Swati Renduchintala2 and Alok Sikka1 (1 International Water Management Institute, 2 CIFOR-ICRAF) Globally Food, Land, and Water Systems (FLWS) are being degraded rapidly. Indian agriculture is heavily dependent on natural resources. Agriculture plays a significant role in India’s $3.5 trillion