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Agroecology plays an important role in contributing to the eradication of hunger and extreme poverty, and as a means to facilitate the transition to more productive, sustainable and inclusive food systems. Creating a greater awareness of agroecology and its advantages is an important step to help policy-makers, farmers and researchers to apply this approach to achieve a world without hunger.

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Agroecology or Collapse Part II – Democratizing Food Systems and Breaking the Bonds of Food Empires

The global syndemic can be read from both poles of food systems: on the one hand, agricultural production is carried out on large scales, based on the intensive use of artificial inputs, such as agrochemicals, hormones, and antibiotics; on the other, the consumption of ultra-processed foods and the culturing of deeply unhealthy...
Article
2020

Results from the exploratory work on identifying the current situation of agroecology in the Community of Portuguese language countries (CPLP)

Results of the Webinar “Agroecology in the Community of Portuguese language countries - State of the Art and Perspectives” This special edition of the newsletter of the Training Center for Sustainable Family Agriculture of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CCAFS) presents the summary of two webinars carried out by the Center...
Newsletter
2021

Agroecology or Collapse Part 1- From Emergency Responses to Systemic Transformations

The growing number of ecological, health, economic and social crises situations are compounding and are based on an exceptionally complex political reality that demands a systemic and holistic perspective. This first article of a three-part contribution to Agroecology Now presents the current moment as a crisis in capitalism that demands systemic and...
Article
2020

Transforming food systems under climate change: Local to global policy as a catalyst for change

Feeding and nourishing a growing and changing global population in the face of rising numbers of chronic hunger, slow progress on malnutrition, environmental degradation, systemic inequality, and the dire projections of climate change, demands a transformation in global food systems. Policy change at multiple levels is critical for catalysing an...
Working paper
2019

Agricultural diversification promotes multiple ecosystem services without compromising yield

Enhancing biodiversity in cropping systems is suggested to promote ecosystem services, thereby reducing dependency on agronomic inputs while maintaining high crop yields. This paper assesses the impact of several diversification practices in cropping systems on above- and belowground biodiversity and ecosystem services by reviewing 98 meta-analyses and performing a second-order...
Journal article
2020

Beyond Sustainability in Food Systems: Perspectives from Agroecology and Social Innovation

Food security faces many multifaceted challenges, with effects ranging far beyond the sectors of agriculture and food science and involving all the multiscale components of sustainability. This paper puts forward the point of view about more sustainable and responsible approaches to food production research underlying the importance of knowledge and...
Journal article
2020
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