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Agroecology has been defined based on three interdependent dimensions: as a practice, as a scientific approach, and as a social movement. As a social practice, it is expressed in the various ways in which peasant family farming and indigenous and traditional peoples and communities organize their work for the diversified...
Artículo
2021
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...
Artículo
2020
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...
Artículo
2020
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...
Documento de trabajo
2019
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...
artículo de revista
2020
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...
artículo de revista
2020
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