People’s Experiences SEE ALL
2024-07-23
The "National Plan Planting Trees, Producing Healthy Food" was launched at the beginning of 2020, as a decisive action to project “the MST, popular agrarian reform, and agroecology as central axes in the formulation of alternatives to the environmental crisis”, in words of one its coordinators.
2024-06-18
Brazil holds a prominent position in global agriculture, characterised by two distinct forms of production: agribusiness and family farming.
2024-05-14
This article narrates IAPC (Baobab) visit to Baladi Bio Farm, an agroecological farm nestled next to an immense desert in Morocco.
Science & Technology SEE ALL
2024-07-09
Earthworms are known as “ecosystem engineers” and play a huge role in the soil's material cycle, microflora metabolism, ecological balance and energy transfer, which can also be utilised in agroecology.
2024-06-25
This is the second article in the ecological construction series being developed by ROOTS. We look at the building process of the Florestan Fernandes National School in Guararema, which was inaugurated in 2005 after a five-year construction process.
2024-01-23
The development of agriculture is directly related to urbanisation and life in cities. During the 20th century, Urban Agriculture (UA) experiences gained prominence in different historical and geographical contexts, especially after the Second World War. What are these experiences about and how are they linked to food sovereignty?
People’s Sovereignty SEE ALL
2024-07-02
This century’s environmental crisis is directly connected to the agribusiness model based on large rural properties and single-commodity crops.
2024-06-11
For the first time, a delegation of rural popular organisations participated with a delegation that travelled to China within the framework of the Sino-Brazilian High Level Commission for Concertation and Cooperation (Cosban).
2024-06-04
The economic centrality of many developing countries is neoextractivism, which is characterised by the export of commodities, especially grains, meat, cellulose, ethanol, ores and oil.
Other Interesting Topics SEE ALL
2024-05-21
Food Loss and Waste is a significant issue in the agrifood system, impacting the economy, environment, poverty, employment, and natural resources.
2024-04-30
2024-04-16
17 April, which has become known in Brazil as the National Day of Struggle for Agrarian Reform, marks the massacre that took place in Eldorado dos Carajás in 1996, when military police from the state of Pará carried out a brutal act against 1,500 families of landless rural workers who were marching to demand the expropriation of land in the region.