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Pathways to agroecological management through mediated markets in Santa Catarina, Brazil
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2017 Agroecology, as a social movement and scientific discipline, applies ecological principles to the design and management of agricultural systems to improve environmental outcomes and livelihoods for farmers and rural communities.
Jill Guerra +3 more
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Adoption and Diffusion of Agroecological Practices in the Horticulture of Catalonia
Agronomy, 2021 The environmental impact of conventional food production systems imposes a rapid transition towards sustainable production systems through the adoption of agroecological practices. The barriers and accelerators of the adoption of agroecological practices
Adrián Polonio Punzano +2 more
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Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo, 2021 The article presents some research results, which takes as a background the MST's experience of “agroecological transition” and its implications for the debate on rural development and rural education.
Sérgio Roberto Moraes Corrêa +1 more
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Ecology and Society, 2018 Agroecology has been proposed as a promising concept to foster the resilience and sustainability of agroecosystems and rural territories. Agroecological practices are based on optimizing ecosystem services (ES) at the landscape, farm, and parcel scales ...
Nicolas Dendoncker +5 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsThe Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Tool for Agroecological Performance Evaluation (TAPE) is a participatory framework for assessing the performance of agroecological systems. Using Lake Bosomtwe Biosphere Reserve (LBBR) in Ghana as a case study,
Charlotte Kaiser +5 more
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Understanding Farm Diversity to Promote Agroecological Transitions [PDF]
Sustainability, 2018 Agroecology is increasingly promoted by scientists, non-governmental organisations (NGO’s), international organisations and peasant movements as an approach to foster the transition to sustainable and equitable food systems. The challenges to agroecological transitions are not the same for all farmers, as they can face different social and bio-physical
Teixeira, Heitor Mancini +6 more
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AgroEcological Transitions : changes and breakthroughs in the making
, 2017 This chapter investigates how sustainable practices interact and co-evolve with sustainable marketing initiatives. The research is based on an international survey of fifteen case studies of institutional innovations in linking sustainable agricultural practices with markets.
van Mierlo, B.C. +3 more
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Agroecological Transitions: A Mathematical Perspective on a Transdisciplinary Problem
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 In the face of climate change, rising hunger and mass extinctions, scholars stress the need to transition food systems from fossil fuel-dependent conventional farms to agroecological alternatives that can store carbon, improve food security and harbor ...
Theresa Wei Ying Ong, Wenying Liao
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Agrociencia Uruguay, 2023 Agroecology represents one of the main alternatives to production models generated by the green revolution, both in Uruguay and other countries. It appears as a response to climate change, biodiversity management, nature resource restoration, and, more ...
Inés Ferreira Rivaben +3 more
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Human factor of agroecological transition: global guidelines for Ukraine
Український соціумThe increasing demand from society for high-quality and healthy food, the reduction of negative environmental impacts, the ensuring of sustainable agricultural and rural development, and the fulfillment of European integration obligations all highlight ...
Prokopa I. V., Rykovska O. V.
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