Members of the AgriCultures Network are working together to advance family farming and agroecology by drawing lessons from farmers’ fields, sharing knowledge, and working with social movements for policy change. Read our latest news. A new global agenda for research on family farming As part of the International Year of Family Farming, research institutions in … Read more

Charming as it may seem, the landscape of the Northern Frisian woodlands in the Netherlands would have looked very different today if dairy farmers had not organised themselves in territorial cooperatives and forged alliances to challenge policies, laws, and the dominant view on farming and nature management. Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands, is … Read more

With more than a thousand people per square kilometre, Bangladesh has by far the greatest population density of any similar sized country in the world. Land is scarce, and the flooding seems to get worse year after year. But, the emerging use of seasonal islands now offers some farming families a new way to grow … Read more

Jeff Campbell – “Working together is a motivating and powerful approach to getting things done” says Jeff Campbell, manager of the Forest and Farm Facility. “This holds true for my own approach to life; for the work of the millions of forest and farm families stitching together complex livelihoods and ecosystems at a landscape level. … Read more

Pak Usub used to make his living from working in forest industries, and put his hand to illegal logging in a protected forest reserve. However, realising that the trees would soon all be cut, he turned to farming to make a living. He and former logger friends developed new farming methods to overcome the constraints … Read more

Heitor Teixeira asks whether we can combine farming and forest conservation? And working with farmers in Brazil, he thinks that by involving them integrally, we can. The city of Viçosa is located in the Zona da Mata region, Minas Gerais, Brazil, surrounded by mountains and poor soils that favour family farming rather than industrial agriculture. … Read more

Doña Cristina Osegura and the community around her in the mountains of Honduras show how they are using agroecological practices to sustain their families and their landscape. “My name is Doña Cristina Osegura and my community is called El Guano. It can be found in the mountains about an hour outside the city of Danli … Read more