Towards the establishment of Agroecological Living Landscapes: Considerations for stakeholder engagement and the establishment of Agroecological Living Landscapes (ALLs)

Work Package 1 (WP1) is responsible for the transdisciplinary co-creation of innovations in ALLs. Key activities implemented included stakeholder mapping, assessment of existing multistakeholder initiatives and in some cases, early phases of a visioning exercise. National and local multistakeholder events, review of existing documentation, semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions were used to varying degrees by each country for the above activities. Agreements were negotiated with key national stakeholders in some countries to foster and clarify their active participation in the Initiative and in the decision-making regarding ALL identification and establishment. This report presents a reflection about the challenges faced so far with stakeholder engagement and ALL establishment

Engaging with stakeholders for initiating agroecological transition in Living Landscapes: Six guiding principles

In the Agroecology initiative, work package 1 (WP1) is responsible for ALL establishment. From the very beginning, during the initiative kick-off workshop in March 2022, the country leads of the seven countries in which the initiative operates agreed with WP1 coordination that the ALLs could not be established by applying a standard approach or methodology. Indeed, differences in the current state, trajectory, and human resources in terms of advancing agroecology and implementing multistakeholder approaches in each country need to be considered. Also, by its very design, the Agroecology Initiative intends to have strong national and local partners in each country, which are to contribute to developing the Initiative’s objectives and local implementation strategy. It was hence decided collectively that the ALL establishment could best be guided through the identification of common engagement principles that each country team could use flexibly to shape and guide its approach and related actions. In other words, considerations and principles presented in this guide may apply differently in each country and it is up to each country team to decide how to make use of them for achieving their objectives. Following this rationale, this document presents the six guiding principles that were eventually identified. After introducing each principle, the document presents generic steps and specific considerations or suggestions for their operationalization/implementation

FR2.1: Toward a Feminist Agroecology

Agroecology is gaining ground as a movement, science, and set of practices designed to advance a food systems transformation which subverts the patterns of farmer exploitation currently entrenched in dominant agricultural models. In order for agroecology to achieve its espoused twin aims of social and ecological wellbeing, women and other historically marginalized stakeholders must be empowered and centered as the movement's protagonists. The importance of gender and social considerations is not limited to patently social aspects of the agroecological agenda, but bears relevance in every dimension of agroecology. Yet, issues related to gender have commanded relatively little attention in the agroeocological literature. This presentation reviews HLPE's 13 defining principles of agroecology through a feminist lens to demonstrate the ways in which human dimensions and power dynamics are interwoven in every principle. Through this analysis, we demonstrate that a feminist approach is instrumental to establish a socially just and ecologically sustainable agroecological transition

Toward a feminist agroecology

Agroecology is gaining ground as a movement, science, and set of practices designed to advance a food systems transformation which subverts the patterns of farmer exploitation currently entrenched in dominant agricultural models. In order for agroecology to achieve its espoused twin aims of social and ecological wellbeing, women and other historically marginalized stakeholders must be empowered and centered as the movement’s protagonists. The importance of gender and social considerations is not limited to patently social aspects of the agroecological agenda, but bears relevance in every dimension of agroecology. Yet, issues related to gender have commanded relatively little attention in the agroeocological literature. In this paper, we review HLPE’s 13 defining principles of agroecology through a feminist lens to demonstrate the ways in which human dimensions and power dynamics are interwoven in every principle. Through this analysis, we demonstrate that a feminist approach is instrumental to establish a socially just and ecologically sustainable agroecological transition

Improving nutrition with agricultural biodiversity

A manual on implementing food systems field projects to assess and improve dietary diversity, and nutrition and health outcome

Lessons learned from application of the “Indicators of Resilience in Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)” under the Satoyama initiative

Socio-ecological resilience is vital for the long-term sustainability of communities in production landscapes and seascapes, but community members often find it difficult to understand and assess their own resilience in the face of changes that affect them over time due to economic and natural drivers, demographic changes, and market forces among others, due to the complexity of the concept of resilience and the many factors influencing the landscape or seascape. This chapter provides an overview of a project and its resilience assessment process using an indicator-based approach, which has been implemented under the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI). In this project, a set of 20 indicators were identified to capture different aspects of resilience in SEPLS, and examples are included from various contexts around the world, with the purpose of identifying lessons learned and good practices for resilience assessment. These indicators have now been used by communities in many countries, often with the guidance of project implementers, with the goal of assessing, considering, and monitoring their landscape or seascape’s circumstances, identifying important issues, and ultimately improving their resilience. While this particular approach is limited in that it cannot be used for comparison of different landscapes and seascapes, as it relies on community members’ individual perceptions, it is found useful to understand multiple aspects of resilience and changes over time within a landscape or seascape

Practice patterns and 90-day treatment-related morbidity in early-stage cervical cancer

To evaluate the impact of the Laparoscopic Approach to Cervical Cancer (LACC) Trial on patterns of care and surgery-related morbidity in early-stage cervical cancer

Stakeholder mapping as a key step towards establishing Agroecological Living Landscapes

Understanding who the stakeholders are in each territory, and who should be part of an Agroecological Living Landscape (ALL), as well as what type of relationships might already exist between stakeholders (i.e., ongoing multistakeholder platforms), what their interests are, and what agroecological practices they are already engaged in is a key initial step in forming ALLs. The information derived from of the stakeholder mappings will shape the structure and the type of agroecological transitions that ALL stakeholders will pursue in each territory. This presentation includes the following aspects​: Briefly present the main features of the guidelines developed by WP1 about stakeholder mapping and assessment of existing multistakholder initiatives; Propose a brief cross-analysis of results that country teams obtained from implementing in their own specific ways stakeholder mapping and initiative assessment, and a number of lessons derived from this activity at the country and WP1 levels ​; Outline the next steps​; Illustrate how country teams implemented stakeholder mapping and the kind of results obtained by end of 2022, with a particular focus on Peru, Zimbabwe and Tunisia​

Toward a feminist agroecology: achieving a socially just and sustainable food systems transformation

Food systems must be transformed if we are to feed the world without destroying the planet. Agroecological principles are central to creating and sustaining that change, but their transformative potential must be strengthened by better integrating critical gender and social inclusion considerations into agroecological approaches. In order for agroecology to achieve its espoused twin aims of social and ecological wellbeing, women and other historically marginalized stakeholders must be empowered and centered as the movement’s protagonists. Based on the article ‘Toward a Feminist Agroecology’1, this brief outlines key gender issues that must be addressed to achieve an equitable and sustainable agroecological transition

Toward a Feminist Agroecology

Agroecology is gaining ground as a movement, science, and set of practices designed to advance a food systems transformation which subverts the patterns of farmer exploitation currently entrenched in dominant agricultural models. In order for agroecology to achieve its espoused twin aims of social and ecological wellbeing, women and other historically marginalized stakeholders must be empowered and centered as the movement’s protagonists. The importance of gender and social considerations is not limited to patently social aspects of the agroecological agenda, but bears relevance in every dimension of agroecology. Yet, issues related to gender have commanded relatively little attention in the agroeocological literature. In this paper, we review HLPE’s 13 defining principles of agroecology through a feminist lens to demonstrate the ways in which human dimensions and power dynamics are interwoven in every principle. Through this analysis, we demonstrate that a feminist approach is instrumental to establish a socially just and ecologically sustainable agroecological transition