Organic Certification Preparation Manual
This guide is specifically intended for Producer Organisations (POs) located incountries outside the European Union (EU), as well as for AVSF’s technical teamsworking with them. Its objective is to describe the different stages of organic certification, and tohighlight the difficulties that can be encountered, in order to anticipate and planas well as possible this process […]
Short supply chains supported by AVSF
Numerous projects implemented by AVSF and together with farming families and their organisations, as well as other private and public players, have led to the development of short supply chains as defined by the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty: “a method of marketing agricultural products which is carried out either by direct sale […]
Methodological recommendations to better evaluate the effects of farmer field schools mobilized to support agroecological transitions
Methodological recommendations to better evaluate the effects of farmer field schools mobilized to support agroecological transitions The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach, based on group experimentation of innovative practices and/or farming systems, is in line with participatory farm advisory efforts. This approach has an ambitious goal: strengthening farmers’ skills so that they can adapt their […]
How can the farmer field school approach be used to support agroecological transitions in family farming in the Global South?
How can the farmer field school approach be used to support agroecological transitions in family farming in the Global South? The key to implementing farmer field schools (FFS) is to trigger an experimentation process based on collaboration between a group of farmers and a facilitator. The purpose of this document is to provide project managers, […]
Smallholder farming and the transition to agroecology
Agro-ecology: evaluation methods for its effects and conditions for development
Agro-ecology: evaluation methods for its effects and conditions for development Proceedings of the exchange and methodological construction workshop on the 14th and 15th of December 2017 This document presents the work of the exchange workshop organized on December 14th and 15th, 2017 by the Working Group on Agroecological Transitions (GTAE in French – created par […]
Economic efficiency and effectiveness of agricultural water use in family farming
Economic efficiency and effectiveness of agricultural water use in family farming The question of the economic efficiency of water use is often raised in all national and international arenas, with some industries readily questioning water usage in peasant farming compared to other modes of farming. In 2013, AGTER, AVSF and GRET (three members of the […]
InternatIonal year of famIly farmIng: for the polItIcal recognItIon of the effIcIency and performance of small-scale farmIng!
International year of family farming: for the political recognition of the efficiency and performance of small-scale farmIng! Despite its considerable assets, family farming is all too often faced with persistent exclusion from access to natural resources and services. Its vulnerability to economic and climate crises, to free trade and investment policies and to price instability […]
