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Less than one year away from the next United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development scheduled for June 2012 inRio (Rio+20), the international community is mobilizing to ensure that tomorrow’s major challenges are on the agenda. Amongthese subjects, the issue of global food security and new challenges governing current and future...
Article
2011
On his experimental farm in Artemisa Province, La Finca Marta, Funes-Monzote embraces a movement to cultivate “agroecology” in Cuba. This method of sustainable farming, he believes, may be the best hope for Cuban food production, as the island nation works to overhaul its economic and agricultural systems – both of...
Cuba
Article
2015
African Civil Society Statement: FAO Regional Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, Dakar, 2015.
Article
2015
Oliver De Schutter speaks about sustainable food systems at a conference in Wageningen, the Netherlands. “Agroecology is really common sense. It means understanding how nature works, to replicate the natural workings of nature on farms in order to reduce dependency on external inputs. Agroecology preserves the ability for future generations...
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2014
In the past 50 years, around 5,2 million Colombian farmers have been displaced from their lands, and about 8 million hectares of farmland were taken from their owners due to Colombia’s internal armed conflict. The war and neoliberal policies caused suffering, especially for women farmers. In order to overcome this...
Colombia
Article
2015
Based on a review of its history, its present structure and its objective in the future, agroecology is defined as an integrative discipline that includes elements from agronomy, ecology, sociology and economics. Agroecology’s credentials as a separate scientific discipline were measured against the norms of science, defined by Robert King...
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2003
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