The global agenda for sustainable development includes the alleviation of poverty and hunger by developing sustainable agriculture and food systems. Intensive farming systems and their variations, such as sustainable intensification or ecological intensification, are currently being promoted as technologies that can improve agricultural productivity and reduce environmental impacts. However, these...

What does agroecology mean? How is it practiced? Who are the holders/creators of agroecological knowledge? What are the exciting questions or recent advances in agroecology research? This session discussed the interpretation of agroecology evolution as a practice, research discipline, and social movement.

Food production is the world’s leading cause of biodiversity loss. It also accounts for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and causes widespread degradation of the land and water resources upon which it depends. Agroecology is a science that applies the principles and concepts of ecology to farming, making the most of nature’s...

The project ''Sembrando Capacidades'' will hold during August a series of events to present products on agroecology, the result of the work developed in this area, by this trilateral south-south cooperation project. On 19 August 2021, at 14h Colombian time/ 16h Brazilian time, the event Presentation of results: ''Public policy guidelines...

This article traces multiple directions in the evolution of agroecology, from its early emphasis on ecological processes in agricultural systems, to its emergence as a multidimensional approach focusing on broader agro-food systems. This review is timely, as agroecology is being increasingly applied within a diversity of scientific-, policy-, and farmer-based...

Agroecology Newsletter of July 2021