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Young green entrepreneur who has created a web platform for the marketing of organic products in Benin.
Benin
Video
2017
In 2009 the Italian Association for Organic Agriculture (AIAB) launched the first bio-district in Italy. A bio-district is a geographical area where farmers, citizens, tourist operators, associations and public authorities enter into an agreement for the sustainable management of local resources, based on organic principles and practices, aiming at the...
Italy
Case study
2017
Phenomenon based learning provides a platform and logic to establish bridges between academia and society. The phenomenon based learning in farms and communities has provided the basis for an agroecology course from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences since the year 2000. Students and teachers work on ‘open cases’ in...
Norway
Journal article
2013
Reflection on politics done from the field of agroecology is scarce. However, the wide range of agroecological movements and experiences taking place at several levels of public administration suggest that there is a need to develop the political aspects of agroecology’s theory. Agroecology has yet to develop tools and criteria...
Spain
Journal article
2013
This paper examines the origin and impacts of agricultural modernization in relation to the social basis of agroecology as a science and social agrarian movement. The impact of capitalism in rural societies has provided a framework for social movements from the 19th century, a framework that is also applied here...
Spain
Journal article
2013
Nowadays, agroecology is clearly focused on bringing about sustainability to food, concentrates and fibers’ production. However, a bigger picture of major social, economic and social drivers that move food systems beyond the current unsustainable, industrial agriculture is also present. With its basis rooted into ecosystems, agroecological science has become a...
Mexico
Journal article
2013
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