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AGROECOLOGY CASE STUDIES
These resources contain case studies that document and illustrate the viability and legitimacy of AgroEcology
In alphabetical order


AgroEcological Case Studies 
Multiple Examples from the Agricultural Transition Website 


Agroecological Innovations: Increasing Food Production with Participatory Development
Norman Uphoff, Ed., Earthscan Publications Ltd -- 2002


Agroecology: The Bold Future of Farming in Africa 
Michael Farrelly, G. Clare Westwood, Stephen Boustred, Ed., Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM) -- Launched 16 Feb 2017
"Agroecology applies ecological principles to the design and management of agroecosystems. Its practices diversify farms and farming landscapes, increase biodiversity, nurture soil health, and stimulate interactions between different species, such that the farm provides for its own soil organic matter, pest regulation and weed control, without resort to external chemical inputs."


Agroecology Case Studies 
Oakland Institute -- 2016
The thirty-three case studies shed light on the tremendous success of agroecological agriculture across the African continent. They demonstrate with facts and figures how an agricultural transformation respectful of the farmers and their environment can yield immense economic, social, and food security benefits while also fighting climate change and restoring soils and the environment.


Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) Case Studies 


Bhaskar Save, The Ghandi of Natural Farming 
Bharat Mansate (excerpt from his book "The Vision of Natural Farming), Institute of Science in Society -- 24 Feb 2014 
"Natural farming is holistic and bio-diverse organic farming in harmony with nature.  It is low-intervention, ecological and sustainable.  In its purest advanced form, it is a ‘do-nothing’ way of farming where nature does everything, or almost everything, so very little needs to be done by the farmer."


Climate Resilient Agriculture: Experience from ActionAid and Its Partners
ActionAid International -- 2011


Farmer Innovation in Africa: A Source of Inspiration for Agricultural Development
Editors: Chris Reij and Ann Waters-Bayer, Earthscan Publications Ltd -- 2001


Fed Up: Now's the Time to Invest in Agroecology
Alex Wijeratna et al, Act!onAid International - Jun 2012


Fertile Ground: Scaling Agroecology from the Ground Up 
Steve Brescia, Ed., Food First Books -- Mar 2017 

“There are about 2.5 billion people in the world, on 500 million farms, involved with smallholder family agriculture and food production. Their creative capacity to farm productively and sustainably with nature, instead of against it, is perhaps the most powerful force that can be unleashed to overcome the interlinking challenges of hunger, poverty, climate change, and environmental degradation. This is the essence of agroecology.”


Organic Agriculture: African Experiences in Resilience and Sustainability 
National Resources Management and Environment Department, UN/FAO -- May 2013
This resource stems from the conference on "Mainstreaming Organic Agriculture into the Africa Development Agenda" held in Lusaka, Zambia on 02-04 May 2012.  See Conference Declaration.


Organic Agriculture and Food Security in Africa
Prepared by Rachel Hine and Jules Pretty for UNCTAD - UNEP -- 2008


Our Seeds, Our Future 
La Via Campesina -- May 2013


Seed Map: Online Portal on Seeds, Biodiversity, and Food 
Project of USC Canada and ETC Group
-- Oct 2013


SCI- The System of Crop Intensification: Agroecological Innovations for Improving Agricultural Production, Food Security, and Resilience to Climate Change 
Norman Uphoff, Binju Abraham, Hailu Araya et al, SRI International Network and Resources Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA -- 2014
SCI practices enable farmers to mobilize biological processes and potentials that are present and available within crop plants and within the soil systems that support them 


Soils for Life 
Farming Matters Magazine, published by the Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture -- Mar 2015


Sustainable Intensification of African Agriculture
Jules Pretty, Camilla Toulmin, Stella Williams, Taylor & Francis -- 2012


The Campesion-to-Campesino Agroecology Movement of ANAP in Cuba: Social Process Methodology in the Construction of Sustainable Peasant Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
Peter Michael Rosset, Braulio Machín Sosa, Adilén María Roque Jaime & Dana Rocío Ávila Lozano, Journal of Peasant Studies -- 2011


Using Small-Scale Adaptation Actions to Address the Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Going beyond Food Aid and Cash Transfers
Richard Munang & Johnson N. Nkem, IATP from Sustainability 2011, 3; doi: 10.3390/su3091510


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