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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.

The database provides a starting point to organize the existing knowledge on agroecology, collecting articles, videos, case studies, books and other important material in one place. The objective is to support policy-makers, farmers, researchers and other relevant stakeholders through knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer. The database is a ‘living process’ that is constantly being updated.

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Agroecology is a science that draws on social, biological and agricultural sciences and integrates these with traditional knowledge and farmer's knowledge.
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2015
The Science of Agroecology is defined as the application of ecological concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable agroecosystems.
Definition
2005
La agroecología es una disciplina que provee los principios ecológicos básicos para estudiar, diseñar y manejar agroecosistemas que sean productivos y conservadores de los recursos naturales, y que también sean culturalmente sensibles, socialmente justos y económicamente viables.La agroecología puede describirse como un enfoque que integra ideas y métodos de varios...
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1999
The Science of Agroecology is defined as the application of ecological concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable agroecosystems.
Definition
1995
Agroecology is the integrative study of the ecology of the entire food system, encompassing ecological, economic and social dimensions.
Definition
2003
Agroecology is a scientific discipline that seeks to provide an objective, ecologically based assessment of the structure, function, multidimensionality, and special scale of food systems. It is a complex science, one that links the ecological, economic, social, ethical, and legal aspects of food production. All spatial scales are considered, from...
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2004
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