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Global Food and Nutrition Security

Farmers Organisations Leading Research & Innovation on agroecology for sustainable food systems

Resilient, productive and sustainable agroecological agri-food systems secured through farmer-led innovation and research (goal) reflect the effects of three major expected developments (outcomes) of the FO-RI programme:

strengthened national and regional institutional support for farmer-led action-research on innovative agroecological approaches;
increased know-how of local farmers to apply agroecological approaches and innovate for sustainable and resilient agroecological agri-food systems; and
enhanced organisational capacity of farmer organisations and partner entities to support farmer-led agroecological innovation

More information

More information and links

Project URL	https://europa.eu/capacity4dev/desira/wiki/fo-ri
Geographic coverage	Latin America and the Caribbean Asia Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Philippines Senegal Samoa Solomon Islands Uruguay Tonga Tanzania Cameroon Brazil Burkina Faso Burundi Mali Madagascar Fiji Haiti Pacific
Originally Published	09 Jan 2023
Related links	Website
Knowledge service \| Metadata	Global Food and Nutrition Security \| Agroecology \| Capacity-building Farmers association Agroecological practice
Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET)	innovation agricultural research sustainable agriculture

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