Applying resilience in practice for more sustainable agriculture

This policy brief looks at how resilience thinking can be combined with agroecological approaches to secure the long term availability of healthy and nutritious food for all, while simultaneously decreasing the harm that agriculture causes to the planet’s climate and ecosystems. All this is of course linked to how agriculture can best contribute to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. In particular, this policy brief highlights a number of cases from around the world where innovative agroecological farmers and organizations have applied resilience thinking in practice to cope with challenges like climate change, water scarcity and market volatility. Lessons learned from organic farming and other agroecological approaches in Brazil, Ethiopia, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden and Uganda