Emerging responses to the COVID-19 crisis from family farming and the agroecology movement in Latin America – A rediscovery of food, farmers and collective action
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103098
Abstract: Abstract CONTEXT In Latin America, the so-called informal sector associated with family farming and the agroecology movements were instrumental at coping with and adapting to the COVID-19 challenges. OBJECTIVE To assess the nature and extent… read more here.
Keywords: family farming; farming agroecology; food; agroecology ... See more keywords
Building agroecology with people. Challenges of participatory methods to deepen on the agroecological transition in different contexts
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.02.003
Abstract: a Entretantos Foundation, Spain b Research Team on Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Commons, Institute of Sociology and Peasants Studies, Cordoba University, Spain c Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Professor, Av. Perimentral Rogério Silva S/N,… read more here.
Keywords: building agroecology; agroecology people; people challenges; santa cruz ... See more keywords
Organic products policy in Brazil
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.12.014
Abstract: Considering the environmental and social importance of organic food production and increased supply and demand for organic products in the world and in Brazil, the Brazilian Federal Government began a process of regulation of organic… read more here.
Keywords: policy; organic agriculture; agriculture; agroecology ... See more keywords
Productivity and efficiency impact of climate change and agroecology on Bangladesh agriculture
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104507
Abstract: The paper estimates the impacts of climate change, agroecological and socio-economic characteristics on agricultural productivity and efficiency changes in Bangladesh agriculture using a rich panel dataset of 17 regions covering a period of 61-years (1948–2008).… read more here.
Keywords: production; agroecology; bangladesh agriculture; efficiency ... See more keywords
Knowledge politics in participatory climate change adaptation research on agroecology in Malawi
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DOI: 10.1017/s1742170518000017
Abstract: Abstract Climate change is projected to have severe implications for smallholder agriculture in Africa, with increased temperatures, increased drought and flooding occurrence, and increased rainfall variability. Given these projections, there is a need to identify… read more here.
Keywords: knowledge; agroecology; climate; climate change ... See more keywords
Using agroecology to stimulate the greening of agriculture in China: a reflection on 15 years of teaching and curriculum development
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DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2019.1633901
Abstract: ABSTRACT Even though worldwide research and teaching in Agroecology blossomed in the 1980s, until recently, the development of Agroecology in China has been constrained by technical, cultural and economic considerations. The delay in the assimilation… read more here.
Keywords: greening agriculture; agroecology; agriculture china; using agroecology ... See more keywords
Agroecology in Ecuador: historical processes, achievements, and challenges
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DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1284174
Abstract: ABSTRACT Agroecology in Ecuador has developed from its early stages as a little known, incoherent response to the Green Revolution into a serious agrarian model, with key principles enshrined in the country’s Constitution and Food… read more here.
Keywords: food sovereignty; agroecology; network; agroecology ecuador ... See more keywords
Brief history of agroecology in Argentina: origins, evolution, and future prospects
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DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1287808
Abstract: ABSTRACT Agroecology emerged as a new approach and paradigm of agricultural science to provide strategies for the design, evaluation, and management of sustainable agroecosystems. It arose as a reaction to the consequences of an environmentally… read more here.
Keywords: brief history; agroecology; agroecology argentina; argentina origins ... See more keywords
Engaging the tensions of ecological internships: Considerations for agroecology and sustainable food systems movements
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DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1347120
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper examines ecological farm internships and the implications for agroecology and food systems’ sustainability. Drawing on over 60 interviews with farmers and interns in Ontario, Canada, I show that internships offer hands-on learning… read more here.
Keywords: sustainable food; agroecology; food systems; engaging tensions ... See more keywords
Agroecology: A Transdisciplinary, Participatory and Action-Oriented Approach, by V. Ernesto Méndez, Christopher M. Bacon, Roseann Cohen, and Stephen R. Gliessman
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DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1358962
Abstract: Through decades while US researchers were working with farmers and community-based researchers on agroecology, publications and academic references were scarce in the United States. But suddenly th... read more here.
Keywords: agroecology transdisciplinary; participatory action; agroecology; action oriented ... See more keywords
Generalization without universalization: Towards an agroecology theory
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DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2018.1432003
Abstract: ABSTRACT We consider the question of whether agroecology can be said to have a theory, given its interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Based on the discussions from a workshop at the 2015 conference on The Agroecological Imagination:… read more here.
Keywords: agroecology theory; generalization without; agroecology; universalization towards ... See more keywords