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An Undergraduate Agroecology Research Fellows Program Engages Co-learning Through Participatory Action Research

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
This paper addresses the role of an Undergraduate Agroecology Research Fellows Program (UARFP) toward a more critical and equity-oriented agroecology pedagogy.
Karen L. Nordstrom, Catherine E. Horner, Catherine E. Horner, V. Ernesto Méndez, V. Ernesto Méndez, V. Ernesto Méndez, Victor Izzo, Victor Izzo, Nell Carpenter, Joshua W. Faulkner, Joshua W. Faulkner, Joshua W. Faulkner, Martha Caswell, Martha Caswell, Martha Caswell, Martha Caswell   +15 more
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Revamping Ecosystem Services through Agroecology—The Case of Cereals

Agriculture, 2021
Globally, farming systems are mostly dominated by monoculture, which has the advantage of profitability at the expense of ecological systems. Recent years have witnessed an increasing momentum in global efforts to deploy sustainable agriculture practices
Gomathy Sethuraman, Nurul Amalina Mohd Zain, Sumiani Yusoff, Yin Mei Ng, Niranjan Baisakh, Acga Cheng   +5 more
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agroecological approaches to securing rural livelihoods: a critical analysis using the example of Tanzania

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Agrifood systems globally are confronted with mounting challenges, including hunger, rising food prices, and geopolitical tensions. Conventional agricultural models face criticism for causing environmental degradation and increasing poverty, which ...
Nadja Ahmad, Sören Köpke
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L’agro-écologie au Brésil, un instrument genré de luttes sociales

L'Ordinaire des Amériques, 2016
From the analysis of struggles for land, for agroecology and for the recognition of productive and reproductive work of rural women, we show how agroecology is thought as a movement of gender identities construction and as a precious instrument of ...
Hélène Guétat-Bernard, Heloïse Prévost   +1 more
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Agroecology

, 2021
Abstract Agroecology is an alternative paradigm for agriculture and food systems that is simultaneously: (a) the application of ecological principles to food and farming systems that emerge from specific socioecological and cultural contexts in place-based territories; and (b) a social and political process that centers the knowledge ...
M P Pimbert, N I Moeller, J Singh, C R Anderson   +3 more
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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini, Karan Sethi, Emanuela Granata, Ekaterina Mogilnaia, Valeria Vitangeli, Giovanni Zanfei, Chiara Fedrigotti, Paolo Biella, Dino Scaravelli, Luigi Marchesi, Péter Batáry, Diego Rubolini, Paolo Pedrini, Mattia Brambilla   +13 more
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Not yet at the table: The absence of food culture and tradition in agroecology literature

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2020
This review of agroecology’s current work on culture and food traditions—a principle of the field and one of the FAO’s 10 Elements of Agroecology—reveals two things.
Caitlin B. Morgan, Amy B. Trubek
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Cultivating Circularity: Harnessing Industry 4.0 and Stakeholder Engagement for a Sustainable Agrifood Future in Brazil

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzed Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technology applications in agribusiness and the role of strategic stakeholders, engagement methods, and other critical aspects data sharing, confidentiality, integrity, decision‐making, and sector‐specific requirements in promoting circularity.
Simone Sehnem, Lucila M. S. Campos, Tais Provensi, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source