Agroecology

Green Economy Accelerator project engages farmers to transform agriculture in India

Satya Tripathi, former assistant general secretary of U.N. Environment, wants to solve environmental challenges by “[changing] the way [people] live their lives… when you work with them directly.” His Green Economy Accelerator for a Just Transition (GREAT) is helping Indian smallholder farmers adopt greenhouse-based permaculture and has invested in fruit cultivation and anaerobic digesters. GREAT […]

Tanzania achieves 128% food sufficiency through agroecology, rejects GMOs

While rejecting genetically modified organisms as a “false solution” linked to neocolonialism and economic dependence, Tanzania achieved a significant milestone recently by becoming 128% food sufficient without the use of GMOs. President Samia Suluhu Hassan, during the World Food Prize Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue held in Iowa in late October, spoke of the nation’s […]