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Open access repository for the brazilian literature on agroecology. [PDF]
, 2010 The Brazilian technical and scientific literature on Agroecology is plentiful, is scattered and of difficult access and the hypothesis is that the knowledge of the area was produced but is composed by a knowledge to be organized.
Alencar, Maria de Cléofas Faggion
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, 2016 The agricultural and rural domains are characterized by internal and external drivers which menace the system, such as GM crops’ threats to agriculture and human health, supermarkets’ power over consumers and farmers, the imposition of the WTO liberalizing agenda, and the displacement of farmland to marginal locations due to land speculation.
López-i-Gelats, Feliu +3 more
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Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2021 In this article we discuss the experience of agroecology policies implemented in Cuba and in Latin American countries that made a shift to the left in the early years of the 21st century and are currently facing an emergence of right-wing political ...
Omar Felipe Giraldo, Nils McCune
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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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Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2013 This article aims to discuss agroecology as political discourse. It draws on research by Altieri, Nichols, Glisseman, Gúzman and Cristoffoli, amongst others, in order to show the trajectories of agroecology as a science and the attempts to establish ...
Caetano De’ Carli
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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 +5 more
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Agroecology and gender effects on rural households' food insecurity and coping mechanisms in Borena District, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. [PDF]
BMC NutrWorku M, Mitiku B.
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Exploring the Potential of Developmental Work Research and Change Laboratory to Support Sustainability Transformations:A Case Study of Organic Agriculture in Zimbabwe [PDF]
, 2018 This paper explores the emergence of transgressive learning in CHAT-informed development work research in a networked organic agriculture case study in Zimbabwe, based on intervention research involving district organic associations tackling ...
McAllister, Georgina +3 more
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AgronomyFarmers are increasingly faced with challenges such as climate change, population growth, and the need for sustainable food production, while simultaneously having to address the environmental impacts of conventional agriculture.
Dimitra Petraki +6 more
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Environmental Management, 2023 A critical question is whether agroecology can promote climate change mitigation and adaptation outcomes without compromising food security. We assessed the outcomes of smallholder agricultural systems and practices in low- and middle-income countries ...
K. Dittmer +8 more
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