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Transition to Agroecological Practices: Positive Effects on Streams and Biofilms

Transformations in agricultural practices, particularly regarding chemical inputs such as pesticides, affect physical and chemical characteristics and biotic communities of streams.
De Geronimo, Eduardo, Mujica, Micaela, Paredes del Puerto, Juan Martín, Jensen, Roberto, Paracampo, Ariel, Nicolosi Gelis, María Mercedes, Pecile, María Agostina, Cordero, Tómas, Mosca, Agustín Ignacio, Cochero, Joaquín, Fanelli, Silvia   +10 more
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The Path to Sustainability: Apricot Growers' Willingness to Adopt Agroecological Practises in Malatya, Türkiye

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global food system faces sustainability, safety, and equity challenges. Agroecological practises offer solutions through sustainable production and resource conservation. This study examines apricot producers' willingness to adopt agricultural practises in Malatya, Türkiye, focusing on their attitudes, behaviours and the factors ...
Deniz Sarica, Seydanur Albayrak
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of adoption of agroecological practices for winegrowers and influence from policies in the province of Trento, Italy

, 2017
Many agricultural practices are negatively impacting the environment and threatening the ecological foundations of the global food system. Therefore, agroecological practices are being proposed as viable and desirable alternatives. Biophysical, economic,
J.M.S. Scholberg, Wezel, A., Wezel, Alexander, Scholberg, J.M.S., C.S. Garini, J.C.J. Groot, F. Vanwindekens, Vanwindekens, F., Garini, C.S., Groot, J.C.J., A. Wezel   +10 more
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Expansion of the Brazilian Sugarcane Bioenergy System Promotes Greenhouse Emission Reductions and Sustainable Development Without Compromising Food Security

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing global demand for biofuels has raised concern about compromising food security. This study uses two independent economy‐wide models to evaluate the impact of expanding the Brazilian sugarcane bioenergy system on economic growth, social outcomes and food security.
Angelo C. Gurgel, Sofia M. Arantes, Luciane C. Bachion, Marcelo M. R. Moreira, Marcelo Justus, David Chiaramonti, Lee R. Lynd   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soil Fauna and Ecosystem Services in Agroecological Cropping Systems: Focus on Experimental Open-Field Market Gardens

Soil Systems
Agroecological practices can be used to optimise ecological functions and improve the health of agroecosystems. The present study aimed to determine the effects of two agroecological systems (AG and AGSPP) on soil biodiversity and ecosystem services in ...
Coraline Moulin-Rouyard, Victor Vaillant, Valérie Angeon, Jean-Louis Diman, Jean Vaillant, Gladys Loranger-Merciris   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leveraging the Potential of Public Food Procurement to Achieve Multiple Food System Outcomes: Insights From a Policy Analysis in Australia

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Government food procurement investment offers significant potential to advance health and sustainability goals; yet, integrating these dimensions into policy design has proved challenging. We mapped and analysed 38 food procurement and catering‐specific policies in Australia to identify ways to strengthen policy design: 20 governing ...
Carolina Venegas Hargous, Anne Marie Thow, Belinda Reeve, Erica Reeve   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamique d’intensification, production cotonnière et transition agroécologique au sud-Bénin : des contradictions insurmontables ?

VertigO
This article studies the centre of the commune of Aplahoué in southern Benin, where the length of the rainy season enables crops to be cultivated twice a year.
Hubert Cochet, Simon Delivet, Marc Oswald   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climate‐Resilient Agri‐Food Systems (CRAFS): A Review of Approaches and Outcomes of Agri‐Food Systems

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is increasingly destabilizing agri‐food systems globally, with complex disruptions extending across production, distribution, and consumption. In response, climate‐resilient agri‐food system (CRAFS) approaches have gained prominence as a means to sustain food security under escalating climatic stressors.
M Manjurul Islam, Evan D. G. Fraser
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring challenges and agroecological solutions for vegetable production in semi-arid Turkana County, Kenya

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionAgroecological farming is increasingly promoted as a climate-smart strategy for drylands, yet evidence on its effectiveness, acceptability, and sustainability in pastoral and agropastoral contexts remains limited.
Alex Eeman Aule, Aspasia Werner, Irmgard Jordan, Gudrun B. Keding   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Informal learning and agroecological practices in the context of an orchard

, 2020
El siguiente trabajo es abordado desde un enfoque etnográfico, y tiene como propósito conocer aspectos relevantes del aprendizaje co-construido a través de prácticas agrícolas en el contexto informal de una huerta, ubicada dentro del territorio de una universidad nacional de Argentina, configurada de forma autónoma y horizontal.
Perroni Gasull, Candela, Sago Herrador, Emilia, Belén Martín, Rocío   +2 more
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