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Agroecology plays an important role in contributing to the eradication of hunger and extreme poverty, and as a means to facilitate the transition to more productive, sustainable and inclusive food systems. Creating a greater awareness of agroecology and its advantages is an important step to help policy-makers, farmers and researchers to apply this approach to achieve a world without hunger.

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Socioeconomic sustainability of agroecological farming: a quantitative analysis of cucurbit crop production in Eastern Central Tanzania

Agroecological farming emerges among approaches for managing crop pests including the “True” fruit fly (Diptera, Tephritidae).  This baseline interviews and field experiments in Eastern Central Tanzania was conducted to determine farmers’ perception on the approach and verify its socio-economic performance in cucurbit crop production. The performance of small-scale cucurbit farming in...
United Republic of Tanzania
Journal article
2024

Agroecology for Structural One Health

Based on colonial capitalist logics, global biosecurity strategies have long relied upon downstream measures of surveillance and control to reduce disease burden and address the rising risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). One Health aims to address this through what it describes as a systems approach, yet in failing to grapple...
Journal article
2024

Building the intrinsic infrastructure of agroecology: collectivising to deal with the problem of the state

Corporate actors in capitalist food systems continue to consolidate ownership of the means of production in ever fewer hands, posing a critical barrier to food sovereignty and to an agroecological transition. Using a case study approach, the journal article evaluates the successes and failures of two campaigns for agrarian reform in...
Journal article
2024

What’s Natural About Capital? Agroecology as Resistance to the New Frontier of Colonial Capitalist Carbon Farming

The recent acceleration of the financialization of nature, in which a farmer’s role as a good custodian of land has shifted from a moral obligation to an economic opportunity, has expanded capitalism’s spheres of accumulation beyond agricultural commodities to the very building blocks they rely upon water, carbon, and biodiversity. This...
Journal article
2024

Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms

Since settlement, colonial values of productivity and improvement have transformed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Country into a site of agricultural extraction. This sturdy examines the nascent peasantisation movement in Australia driven by small-scale farmers rejecting colonial capitalist agriculture within an agroecological transition. The case studies explore how new peasants...
Journal article
2024

Political shifts toward family farming and agroecology in Japan? The impact of United Nations campaigns

In recent decades, several United Nations (UN) organizations have made efforts to change global agri-food policies from a model promoting corporate industrial farming to one advocating agroecological family farming. This shift has garnered support from some of the UN’s most active member countries, farmer organizations, civil society, and academia. However,...
Japan
Journal article
2024
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