抵御力: 提升民众、社区和生态系统的抵御力对于可持续粮食和农业系统十分关键
多样化生态农业系统抵御力更强。这种系统更易从干旱、洪水或飓风等极端天气和其他干扰中恢复，对病虫害的抵御力也更强。在1998年飓风“米奇”袭击中美洲之后，具有生物多样性的农场，例如农林混作、等高耕作和地被间作等，比周边采用传统单作型农场多保留了20-40%的表层土，侵蚀现象较轻，经济损失也较少。
通过维持一定的功能平衡，生态农业系统能更好地抵御病虫害的侵袭。生态农业方法有助于恢复农业系统的生物复杂度，并促进互动生物之间形成必要的集群以自我调节有害生物爆发。在景观层面，多样化农业景观更有潜力实现病虫害防控的功能。
生态农业方法同样能提高社会经济的抵御能力。生产者通过多样化和一体化措施降低其在某一种作物、家畜品种或其他商品歉收时的脆弱性。通过减少对外部投入的依赖，生态农业能降低生产者对经济风险的脆弱性。提高生态系统和社会经济两方面的抵御能力要同时进行。毕竟，人类是生态系统的有机组成部分。
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Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
Italy
视频
2014
LINDROS consults, educates, trains and manages projects related to food sovereignty and food security. LINDROS specializes in Agroecology, using a holistic approach to develop and maintain fertile, healthy soils and safe water sources in order to deliver self-supporting capabilities on food sovereignty to communities.
South Africa
网站
2017
Smallholder farmers in Gambia are increasingly facing climate related induced disasters and vulnerabilities affecting their lives and livelihoods. During 2010-2012, farmers faced flash floods, periods of drought, disease infestation, saline intrusion, deforestation and massive erosion of their farmlands resulting in crop failure and reduced food security. ActionAid has introduced agroecological...
Gambia
个案研究
2017
Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
Italy
视频
2014
This film examines a cooperative of the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST) in the South of Brazil, which struggled for access to land and then transitioned to ecological agriculture, or agroecology. This MST cooperative is demonstrating the possibility of an alternative model of flourishing rural life, which provides thriving livelihoods for...
Brazil
视频
2014