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Articles on Agroecology
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A guide to the battle for the future of farming.
A recent summit in Ottawa on what’s known as agroecology has shown that more equitable and sustainable methods of producing food are not only possible, they’re beginning to spread around the world.
Developing countries could leapfrog industrial agriculture systems by moving to agroecology.
Multiple reports have convincingly demonstrated that agroecology is the most promising pathway to sustainable food systems on all continents. But governments aren’t doing enough to support it.
Azteca ants are self-appointed protectors of coffee plants on Mexican plantations. But they have a lot to contend with from other insects.
The world’s ‘drylands’ – already home to 38% of the world’s people – are set to dry out even more. And that could harm the soil microbes that keep soils healthy and help crops to grow.
We need to break up the industry, not focus on creating a disease-resistant ‘superbanana’.
The Paris climate summit yielded a pact to reduce air pollutants that contribute to global warming but missed a chance to address the interlinked effects of agriculture and climate.
Agroecological techniques that mimic nature – the antithesis of GMOs and high-cost fertilizers – have made farmers in developing countries more resilient to extreme weather.
Buen Vivir is a concept and practice influencing politics and communities across South America. It involves a radically different way of thinking about collective wellbeing and sustainable living.
The growing Ebola virus outbreak not only highlights the tragedy enveloping the areas most affected but also offers a commentary on they way in which the political ecology in West Africa has allowed this…
Resource-intensive agriculture, despite its productivity, nevertheless has failed to feed the world’s current population, never mind the nine billion people expected by 2050. This system that currently…
Current farming methods rely too much on expensive chemicals such as fertiliser and pesticides; agroecology combines the best of ecological science and farmers’ knowledge to develop more sustainable food…
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor of Agroecology and Food Politics, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University
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Professor and DSTI/NRF SARChI Bio-economy Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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Associate professor, Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Associate Research Professor of Agroecology, University of Vermont
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Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts & Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Microbial Ecology, Western Sydney University
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Soil Ecologist, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems, Lakehead University
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Professor of Agroecology, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor, Global Development, Cornell University
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Research Associate, Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University
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Associate professor, Head of the Dryland Ecology and Global Change Lab, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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Professor of Wildlife Health and Emerging Diseases, Royal Veterinary College
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Research Associate in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona