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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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Agri-environmental measures and conservation of biodiversity: Limitations and future prospects

Agri-environmental measures are considered the main tool available to stop the loss of biodiversity associated with the intensification of agriculture. However, the question of whether or not they constitute an adequate tool to achieve this objective continues to be the subject of scientific debate. The evaluations carried out so far...
Spain
Journal article
2013

Agricultural intensification and plant diversity in Mediterranean rainfed cereal systems: implications for conservation

The work analyzes the importance of plant diversity in agroecosystems and the effects of the intensification of agricultural and landscape practices on plant diversity. The review of several studies carried out by the research team highlights that agricultural intensification, both at the field and landscape levels, negatively affects the abundance...
Spain
Journal article
2013

Diversity, a powerful tool for the development of low-input agriculture

The development of breeding strategies that link biodiversity and crop production and regulation services is compulsory when it comes to promoting a low-input agriculture (which includes organic farming). In low-input agricultural systems, yield production should rely on the tools provided by the diversity within and between crops, using local resources...
Spain
Journal article
2013

Conservation of Agrobiodiversity and Livelihoods in Bajo Sombra Coffee Cooperatives in Central America

We used coffee farming households as units of analysis to synthetize agrobiodiversity data in agricultural plots managed by coffee cooperative members of Nicaragua and El Salvador. Surveys, focus groups and plant inventories were used to analyze agrobiodiversity and its contribution to household livelihoods. Coffee farming families managed high levels of...
Nicaragua
Journal article
2013

Nematodes as environmental indicators in agroecosystems

Since soils provide the basic physical and biological support for plant production, they are the basic unit for agroecosystem dynamics and functioning. Although the effects of anthropogenic practices on the soil abiotic component are widely documented, there are few tools able to assess the impact of these practices on soil...
Spain
Journal article
2013

Integrated production. A strategy of transit towards more sustainable systems

Integrated production can be used in Mediterranean agricultural environments as a starting point strategy for an agroecological transition. This transition has to address important challenges: recovering deteriorated agrarian soils; improve the quality of irrigation waters; use varieties adapted to Mediterranean atmospheric conditions, especially in terms of adapting to ozone levels...
Spain
Journal article
2017
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