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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

In Southern and Eastern Africa, peasant agroecology is the answer to climate crises

In this video you can listen to testimonies from peasant farmers in the Southern and Eastern African regions, who rely on peasant agroecological methods to revive their soil and fight back against the climate crises. They also speak about the centrality of peasants and small-scale food producers in proposing pragmatic ways to rebuild the lost biodiversity, devastated by industrial agriculture.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectFarming Systems
PublisherLa Via Campesina
Publication year2021
RegionsAfrica
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typeMultimedia
Resource linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBniLyblCtg
KeywordsRecognition of the role of farmers; Agricultural biodiversity; Plant breeding; Traditional Knowledge