Academia is one of the pillars that contribute to building agroecology by providing scientific knowledge and by giving future research the opportunity to innovate and enhance the agroecological approach. The FAO Agroecology team believes in the future agroecology promoters and for this reason, we are creating an academic database in the Agroecology...

Este número recoge una variedad diversa de autores/as y entidades que trabajan en ganadería extensiva, dando espacio a artículos que analizan tanto los obstáculos como las oportunidades del sector. Entre ellos, destacan: el pastoreo racional y sus servicios ecosistémicos (de la Universidad de Extremadura), la diferenciación de los productos de...

This paper investigates how transformative agroecology may contribute to the critical reframing of social-ecological relationships, and how this might in turn create a foundation for bottom-up peace formation in fragile environments, within which rural communities are often habituated to conditions of control, violence and mistrust that drive social division. Here,...

This is a participatory case study together with the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Cetap (Centro de Tecnologias Alternativas Populares) in Brazil and the farmers in two of the groups with whom Cetap cooperates. The objective of the study is to describe and evaluate the process of agroecological transition with the aim...

Traditional agroecological knowledge (TAeK) refers to the cumulative and evolving body of knowledge, practices, beliefs, institutions, and worldviews about the relationships between a society or cultural group and their agroecosystems. These knowledge systems contribute to maintaining environmental and culturally sensitive food systems and have been considered very relevant for agroecological...

Agriculture is of undeniable importance in the Kingdom of Morocco. Its economic and social weight, its affiliation to the rural world, as well as the diversity of its functions in food, socio-economic and environmental aspects, make it a natural locomotive of development and economic growth. Aware of the country's remarkable...