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Today’s food and farming systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of foods to global markets but are generating negative outcomes on multiple fronts: widespread degradation of land, water, and ecosystems; high GHG emissions; biodiversity losses; persistent hunger and micro-nutrient deficiencies alongside the rapid rise of obesity and diet-related diseases;...
Report
2016
The present study aims to build a framework and provide a quantitative overview of the effects of adopting selected agroecological practices at the farm level. A literature review has been conducted to identify scientific work addressing agroecology's contribution to a set of socio-economic indicators, which affect human, financial, and social...
Journal article
2017
The study shows how Brazil's National School Feeding Programme (PNAE, its acronym in Portuguese) contributed to fostering: on-farm transitions from low agrobiodiversity, input-intensive farming oriented to diversified farming systems (i.e., horticultural production), and a significant increase of the cultivated area under diversified farming systems. The horticultural output conversion favored the...
Brazil
Article
2019
This article discusses the economic dimensions of agroecological farming systems in Europe. It firstly theoretically elaborates why, and under what conditions, agroecological farming systems can produce higher incomes than farms that follow the conventional logic. This theoretical exposition is then followed by a presentation of empirical material from a wide...
Article
2019
This book represents the work of experts and leaders who have taught, researched, and expanded Chinese agroecology and eco-agriculture for more than 30 years. It reviews decades of agricultural change to provide an integrated analysis of research and development progress in agroecological farming practices.
It contains research on traditional and newly...
China
Book
2015
In 2020, Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula was ravaged by intense drought, flooding from tropical storm Cristobal, hurricanes, and frequent pest outbreaks, in addition to the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis. These events have taken a toll on food security and livelihoods, elevating the risk of hunger, especially among families of small-scale...
Mexico
Project
2021
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