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Scaling up agroecology

With agroecology for sustainable food systems

We are committed to sustainable agri-food sector and food security.

Agroecology

We advance agroecology, which simultaneously applies basic ecological and social principles in agriculture and food industry.

Thinking holistically

With agroecology, we promote three goals at once: sustainable use and regeneration of natural resources, poverty reduction and climate resilience.

Influencing political action

Our work focuses on best policies and best practices that are helping to transform our food and farming systems.

Current projects

Himalayan Agroecology Initiative

In close collaboration with the governments in the Himalayan region and with the support of a broad group of stakeholders, the World Future Council and IFOAM – Organics International together with the Alliance Bioversity International-CIAT, UNDP India, LI-BIRD and Tarayana Foundation are promoting the development and implementation of three comprehensive roadmaps for agroecology-based food systems in India, Nepal and Bhutan, as well as capacity building and strengthening of food system actors in these three countries. This initiative builds on the Future Policy Award 2018, the high-level digital event “Scaling up Agroecology in the Himalayas Together” in 2021 and a preparatory project for the roadmaps in 2022-23.

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FUTURE POLICY AWARD 2018

The Kambashu Institute

2.6 million people live in Namibia, of which estimated 900,000 live in informal settlements. We believe that everyone should have the chance to improve their lives. But unfortunately, people who want this often don’t have access to the necessary knowledge and creativity. It is precisely this gap that we want to close with the Kambashu Institute. We invite people living in Windhoek’s informal settlements to develop new ideas and solutions and host courses in permaculture and horticulture there.

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FUTURE POLICY AWARD 2009

Publications & Downloads

Study: M ainstreaming of organic agriculture and agroecologyin the Himalaya Region

This study, published by the World Future Council and IFOAM – Organics International with the support of the Schweisfurth Foundation, presents a follow-up of our efforts to showcase existing political support for organic farming and agroecology, and brings new insights to the current institutional efforts and limitations of mainstreaming sustainable agriculture across the Himalayan Region. It focuses on the policy contexts of three countries: Bhutan, India, and Nepal.

Position paper to German government: Scaling up agroecology for a transformation of food systems

The negative effects of industrial agriculture have long been evident. Agroecology offers numerous solutions for the fundamental transformation of agricultural and food systems. The position paper presents these solutions, which strengthen agroecology, and is supported by the World Future Council and many important players in the agroecology debate.

Brochure: Future Policy Award 2018: Scaling up agroecology

Appropriate policies that drive the transition to sustainable agriculture and food systems are urgently needed. We recognised the world’s best policies that scale up agroecology with the Future Policy Award 2018 together with FAO and IFOAM – Organics International and the winning policies have been presented in this study, including the famous 100% organic farming policy from Sikkim (India).

Videos & Webinars

As a follow-up to the Future Policy Awards 2018, high-level policy experts gathered on April 28-29, 2021, at the digital event “Scaling up Agroecology in the Himalayas Together” to inspire key decision-makers with policy measures to support agroecology and organic farming in the region. One of the key take aways of this high-level event was that an integrated, holistic and mountain-specific approach has to be emphasized, that increased coordination and cooperation is urgently needed and that the involvement of more policymakers is required, to develop a common roadmap.

Recording of the event

Partners & Initiatives

UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

We support the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a global rallying call to protect and revitalise ecosystems around the world for the benefit of people and nature. It aims to halt ecosystem degradation and restore them to achieve global goals. Only with healthy ecosystems can we enhance people’s livelihoods, counteract climate change, and stop the collapse of biodiversity.

Foundation’s Plattform F20 (F20)

We are members of the F20 platform, which consists of more than 50 foundations and philanthropic organisations from different parts of the world. Together we call for transnational action for sustainable development and positive transformation to chart pathways to solutions to today’s most pressing challenges – climate change and a just transition towards sustainable development based on renewable energies. F20 wants to be part of the solution and builds bridges between civil society, business and the financial sector, think tanks and politics – within the G20 countries, among themselves and beyond.

Agreoecology Coalition

Internationally, we are also active members of the Agroecology Coalition. Created in 2021, the Coalition accelerates the transformation of food systems through agroecology by facilitating collective action and empowering members with capacities needed to drive positive change at all levels. Our work is guided by the Principles and Elements of Agroecology.

Liselotte Foundation

One of our Partners is the Liselotte Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to education, health and environmental protection. The foundation concentrates its funding on activities at its headquarters in Hamburg and in Namibia. It is a supporter of the Kambashu Institute.

Buy Better Food Coalition (BBF)

At the European level, we are part of the Europe-wide coalition of more than 100 members, calling for public procurement rules that work for the environment, consumers, and workers, and that provide healthy food to all European citizens in public places such as schools, hospitals and elderly care homes.

BMEL-BMZ Working Group on World Food Security (AKWE)

We have been a member of the Working Group on World Food Security (AKWE) since 2022. The AKWE is a joint platform of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which promotes regular exchange between politics, aid organizations and science on food security issues.

Agriculture and Food Working Group (AGLE) of Forum on Environment and Development (FUE)

Since December 2022 we have been a member of the Agriculture and Food Working Group, whose, concern is to anchor international justice, human rights orientation and economic, ecological and social sustainability more firmly in the design of national agricultural policy, agricultural development policy and international agricultural relations.