A transition to an agriculture based on agroecological principles would provide rural families with significant socioeconomic and environmental benefits. If agroecology has such great potential to feeding the world, why it is not adopted more widely by farmers? Most research analyzing factorsneeded for scaling up agroecology focuses on the social...

Throughout the developing world, resource-poor farmers (about 1.4 billion people) located in risk-prone, marginal environments, remain untouched by modern agricultural technology. A new approach to natural resource management must be developed so that new management systems can be tailored and adapted in a site-specific way to highly variable and diverse...

生态农业不是一项新发明，可在二十世纪二十年代后的科学文献中找到踪迹，并 在家庭型农户的实践、促进可持续性的草根社会运动以及全世界各国的公共政策中得 到体现。在最近一段时间内，生态农业进入了国际性和联合国机构的讨论范畴. 生态农业与其他可持续发展举措根本不同。生态农业是基于自下而上和地 域性进程，根据各地具体情况提供有针对性的对策。生态农业创新以知识共创 为基础，将科学与生产者的传统型、应用型和本地化知识结合起来。通过提高 生产者和社区的自主性和适应能力，生态农业助其成为变革的关键动因。

In this publication, we share the results of this process. We begin with an introduction to the context of the region and the principles that guide us. We then present the methodological practices we used to build rural women’s autonomy and agroecology.

‘Sustainable intensification’ is now often used to describe the future direction for agriculture and food production as a way to address the challenges of increasing global population, food security, climate change and resource conservation. There is a growing consensus that sustainable intensification should not only avoid further environmental damage, but...

Agri-environmental measures are considered the main tool available to stop the loss of biodiversity associated with the intensification of agriculture. However, the question of whether or not they constitute an adequate tool to achieve this objective continues to be the subject of scientific debate. The evaluations carried out so far...