CCRP | News & Updates

Updates from the Andes Community of Practice

News

Published on: June 8, 2021

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LEISA Magazine, a Champion of Agroecology

News

Published on: March 16, 2021

LEISA, a Spanish-language agroecology magazine the CCRP supports, recently garnered attention.

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Updates from the Andes Community of Practice

Update

Published on: March 16, 2021

The Andes Community of Practice shares recent news.

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Grupo Yanapai Stages Virtual General Assembly

News

Published on: November 17, 2020

Last September, for the first time in a virtual format, Grupo Yanapai celebrated its annual general assembly and elected a new board.

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EkoRural Contributes to Sustainable Food Systems Handbook

News

Published on: November 17, 2020

CCRP grantee EkoRural contributed to the new handbook Enabling Sustainable Food Systems: Innovators’ Handbook published by FAO and INRAE.

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Smallholder Farmers in Peru Add Online Sales to Expand Market

Update

Published on: November 17, 2020

Agroferias Campesinas started as a project of the gastronomic society APEGA and later became an association formed by the participants. Closed during the first months of COVID-19, a reduced version of it now runs three days a week, with the aid of a small CCRP grant, recently started online delivery.

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Agroecology Support (AES) Project Team Shares Reflections on Agroecology in the Andes

Meetings

Published on: November 17, 2020

During the Andes CoP16 meeting, the Agroecology Support (AES) team led a workshop centered on agroecological transitions.

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News from the Agroecology Support Team

News

Published on: November 16, 2020

The Agroecology Support (AES) to the CCRP has been busy in 2020. The AES is supported by a cross-cutting grant to a team at the University of Vermont’s Agroecology and Livelihoods Collaborative (ALC), an international leader in research and education on transdisciplinary and participatory agroecology.

Andes, East & Southern Africa, West Africa

Ecological Pest, Weed & Disease Management (EP&D)

News

Published on: October 30, 2020

Since July 2020, a monthly seminar series has been bringing together McKnight supported researchers from across the three regions to discuss the challenges and successes of their research to develop ecologically sustainable technologies and methods to manage various pest and disease issues affecting smallholder farming systems

Andes, East & Southern Africa, West Africa