Agroecology potentially offers a sustainable path to agricultural development as it integrates ecological principles and social and economic concerns into agri-food systems. While many descriptive studies have documented the experience of farming communities using agroecological approaches, evidence on social and economic indicators of agroecology is poorly documented in a quantitative...

Agroecology Newsletter of February 2020

This paper examines the relationship between agroecological scaling and the agrarian question, based on Puerto Rico’s contradictory agricultural and demographic tendencies in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. We find that labor-based intensification, literally rebuilding and recovering the diversity of farms devastated by the hurricanes, is a necessary step...

The research group in Ecological Economics, Agroecology and History of the University of Vigo, in collaboration with the Agroecological Nucleus of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (Brazil), launch the VIII International Congress of Agroecology that will take place in Vigo from 2 to 3  July.  The central theme of the congress...

This report elaborated by ‘’Ecologists in Action’’ discusses how climate change affects food production and makes an assessment of the proposed strategies in the framework of international negotiations on climate change. Different issues responsible for climate change are described: among these we find land use change; industrial animal husbandry as another...

This new online modeling tool - PARCEL (for Promoting resilient, civic local food systems) - was conceived as an engagement tool, to enable consumers, citizens, inhabitants, civil society organizations, and local authorities to better understand how the forms of farming and farm land use directly impact jobs, food provision, and...