Alain Karsenty, an environmental economist, has been a Senior Scientist at CIRAD (Montpellier, France) since 1992. His research and expertise area are focused on economic instruments for the environment. He has extensive knowledge of land tenure, concessions, forest policies, and practices in West & Central Africa and Madagascar, his main...

Os cursos de agroecologia têm crescido nos últimos anos e sua introdução nas instituições deensino se deu, em especial, a partir dos anos 2000. Desde então, diversos cursos são criados anualmente. No entanto, são poucos e dispersos os estudos que realizam uma análise quantitativa sistematizada sobre o ensino da agroecologia no Brasil....

Sandeep Narayan Jamjade is a farmer residing in Jalochi Village, Baramati, and Pune, India. He is 37 years old with a family of 11. He started his farming venture when he was 24. It took him years of trial and error to adopt various practical solutions leading to ecologically sustainable agricultural...

The International Summer School is a collaboration between Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)'s research group Geography of Food, the Swiss Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), the Hungarian Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (ÖMKi), and research institutes in Spain and Slovenia. In this International Summer School, you will learn about various perspectives on agrobiodiversity and its...

The paper discusses the integration of social sciences views into agroecology as the basis for an interdisciplinary research approach on natural resource management and rural development in the Latin-American tropics. As a disciplines that integrates ecological concepts for managing anthropogenic ecosystems, agroecology is a sound ground to promote innovative processes in...