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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsAgrifood 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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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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The relationships between organic farming and agroecology. [PDF]
, 2011 While acknowledging an extension of agroecology in the organic sector and a growing influence of agroecology in the academic world, we explore their relationships.
Abreu, Lucimar Santiago de +3 more
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Food sovereignty and consumer sovereignty: two antagonistic goals? [PDF]
, 2017 The concept of food sovereignty is becoming an element of everyday parlance in development politics and food justice advocacy. Yet to successfully achieve food sovereignty, the demands within this movement have to be compatible with the way people are ...
Félix, Georges +2 more
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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 +3 more
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More inter- and transdisciplinary research needed in agroecology [PDF]
, 2018 Agroecology embraces a collection of different disciplinary fields, ranging from agriculture and ecology to political theory. A stronger recognition of agroecology in agricultural research, which often has a strong production focus, could help to achieve
Biber-Freudenberger, Lisa +2 more
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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 +5 more
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Enhancing the function and provisioning of ecosystem services in agriculture: Agroecological principles [PDF]
, 2015 Agroecology is essentially based on the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural production, and thus represents a true rupture from the way agriculture has been seen and analysed by mainstream science for over a century.
Hainzelin, Etienne
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Agroecologgy is climate smart [PDF]
, 2015 Agroecology is climate smart; but this is not equivalent to say that climate smart agriculture (CSA) is synonymous with agroecology. CSA has been defined as an approach to addressing food insecurity and climate challenges through: (1) sustainably ...
Tittonell, Pablo
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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 +3 more
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