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Europe Thinks Again About Food
Organic tomatoes thrive in a greenhouse at a farm in southern Poland. Credit: Claudia Ciobanu/IPSBy Claudia CiobanuWARSAW, Aug 19 2012 (IPS)Present day European farming is based on the Common...
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Ecological Cuban Recipes Boost Sustainable Agriculture
In 2012, the Community Food Preservation Project won the Triple Corona, the highest prize awarded by the National Urban Agriculture Group. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPSBy Ivet GonzálezHAVANA, Aug 19...
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Sustainable Technologies Safeguard the Soil in Cuba
Esmilda Sánchez picks string beans on the Finca de Semillas farm. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPSBy Ivet GonzálezHAVANA, Aug 20 2013 (IPS)The furrows are hard to make out in fields of the Finca de...
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Women Farmers in Chile to Teach the Region Agroecology
Part of the grounds and house where the Agroecology Institute for Rural Women will be set up. Credit: Courtesy of ANAMURIBy Marianela JarroudSANTIAGO, Jan 4 2014 (IPS)An organisation that brings...
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Agroecology Movement Addresses Challenges of Food Security
Vendors at the organic farmers' market in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Courtesy: Tillie Castellano.By Carmelo Ruiz-MarreroSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, May 21 2014 (IPS)Agriculture in this Caribbean island is...
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Salvadoran Farmers Stake Their Bets on Sustainable Development
Peasant farmer Brenda Arely Sánchez uses her machete to clear a blocked canal in the Cuche de Monte swamp in Jiquilisco bay on El Salvador’s Pacific coast. Sediment blocks the canals, endangering the...
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The Time Has Come for Agroecology
Agroecology is a different way of seeing the food system because it deals with issues related to who gets access to resources and the processes that determine this access. Photo credit: UN PhotoBy...
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Cuban Agroecological Project Foments Local Innovation
Armando Marcelino Pi and members of his family who work together on the La Carmelina agroecological family farm in La Palma in the mountains of the western Cuban province of Pinar del Río. Credit:...
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As the festive season begins, some farmers say that consumers should be asking about the origins of their food, and thinking about who produces it, especially in light of the historic accord reached at...
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Thaw with United States Will Put Cuba’s Agroecology to the Test
A worker on the Marta farm, which was founded by one of the first proponents of agroecology in Cuba, harvests organic lettuce in the municipality of Caimito, in the western Cuban province of Artemisa....
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Agroecology Booming in Argentina
Agroecological farmer Alicia Della Ceca at her stand in El Galpón, in the neighborhood of Chacarita in the Argentine capital. In the organic producers market, she sells directly to consumers what she...
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Conservation Agriculture Sprouts in Cuban Fields
Onay Martínez holds a sugar-apple on his farm, Tierra Brava, in western Cuba, where he practices conservation agriculture and has turned this sustainable system that minimally disturbs the soil into a...
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Brazil’s Agricultural Heavyweight Status Undermines Food Supply
A soybean plantation in Tocantins, a state in central Brazil, where this monoculture crop is beginning to cover the best lands, following in the footsteps of the neighbouring state of Mato Grosso, the...
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Agroecology Beats Land and Water Scarcity in Brazil
Givaldo dos Santos stands next to a tree loaded with grapefruit in the orchard which he and his wife have planted thanks to the use of techniques that allow them to have plenty of water for irrigation,...
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Family Farming Wages a Difficult Battle in Argentina
One of the street markets where fresh produce is sold in Buenos Aires. The predominance of an agro-export model based on transgenic crops and the massive use of agrochemicals makes things difficult for...
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Coronavirus Hasn´t Slowed Down Ecological Women Farmers in Peru’s Andes...
Quechua indigenous farmers from the town of Huasao, in the Andes highlands of Peru, cut insect repellent plants in front of Juana Gallegos' house, while others prepare the biol mixture, a liquid...
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Cuban Farm Explores Sustainability by Hand
Terraces specially designed to prevent surface runoff during the rains have been key for growing vegetables on the sloping terrain of Finca Marta in the municipality of Caimito, Artemisa province,...
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International Cooperation Gives Biogas a Boost in Rural Cuba
Yunia Cancio and her husband and son stand next to the biodigester installed on their El Renacer farm, in the municipality of Cabaiguán, Sancti Spíritus province, thanks to the Biomass Cuba project...
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Andean Indigenous Women’s Knowledge Combats Food Insecurity in Peru
These containers hold food produced by women in the rural community of Choquepata, in the municipality of Oropesa, in the southern Peruvian department of Cuzco. Ana María Zárate places salad with...
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Biodigesters Boost Family Farming in Brazil
Lucineide Cordeiro loads manure from her two oxen and two calves into the "sertanejo" biodigester that produces biogas for cooking and biofertilizer for her varied crops on the one-hectare...
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Innovative Family Farm in Cuba Uses Mix of Clean Energies
Artist and farmer Chavely Casimiro and her daughter Leah Amanda Díaz feed one of the biodigesters at Finca del Medio, a farm in central Cuba. The biodigester produces about seven meters of biogas per...
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