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This paper briefly discusses the progress and challenges brought by the integration of agroecological approaches into Brazilian institutions. It covers the struggles of rural social movements that work on the ‘agroecological fields’ of the country. The processes leading to the creation of the National Agroecology Articulation (ANA) and the Brazilian...
Brazil
article de journal
2013
Facing the recurrent global food crisis, the food’s corporative regime institutions propose a new Green Revolution alongside the continuation of neoliberal economic policies. As those policies are precisely the origin and cause of the aforementioned crisis, this approach can only worsen global hunger. Building a counter-movement depends upon strategic alliances...
United States of America
article de journal
2013
Traditional knowledge of farmers is vast and permanently evolving, as they keep learning from daily experiences and mutual exchange with other farmers. Ecological modern science is (or should be) the scientific basis for agroecology and should work in synergy with the constant accumulation of knowledge of small-scale producers. Traditional agricultural...
Mexico
article de journal
2013
"Now we live well," say both Givaldo and Nina dos Santos, after showing visiting farmers their 1.25-hectare farm in Brazil's semi-arid Northeast, which is small but has a great variety of fruit trees, thanks to innovative water and production techniques.
Brazil
Article
2018
Maize is the predominant crop in Zambia, both in terms of production and consumption, and levels of crop diversity on Zambian farms tend to be very low. The country’s maize-centric food system contributes to poverty, malnutrition, and vulnerability to drought, pests and diseases. Growing a wider variety of nutritious crops...
Zambia
Innovation
2018
Farming the land as if nature doesn’t matter has been the model for much of the Western world’s food production system for at least the past 75 years. The results haven’t been pretty: depleted soil, chemically fouled waters, true family farms all but eliminated, a worsening of public health and...
Article
2018
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