Organic Agriculture: African Experiences in Resilience and Sustainability

The new FAO publication "Organic Agriculture: African Experiences in Resilience and Sustainability" demonstrates that organic management can benefit people, the economy and ecosystems and that this can be achieved in Africa, where hunger and degradation stubbornly persist, despite decades of development efforts, Organic World reports.
 

The work presented in this volume comes from the conference on Mainstreaming Organic Agriculture in the African Development Agenda, held in Lusaka, Zambia, from 2 to 4 May 2012. Participants of this conference shared research results confirming that organic agricultural practices "increase yields, improve livelihoods and food security, conserve indigenous knowledge, plant varieties and animal breeds, as well as sociocultural development, and provide much greater resilience in times of climate extremes, such as drought and heavy rains." The study may be downloaded at the FAO website. More information is avialable here.