Agroecological Transition Keys

2017 ◽  
pp. 163-246
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Deguine ◽  
Caroline Gloanec ◽  
Philippe Laurent ◽  
Alain Ratnadass ◽  
Jean-Noël Aubertot
Keyword(s):  
Agroecological Transition

Building agroecology with people. Challenges of participatory methods to deepen on the agroecological transition in different contexts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel López-García ◽  
Mamen Cuéllar-Padilla ◽  
Alexandre de Azevedo Olival ◽  
Nina Paula Laranjeira ◽  
V. Ernesto Méndez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Agroecological Transition

Industrial agriculture and agroecological transition systems: A comparative analysis of productivity results, organic matter and glyphosate in soil

2018 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 103-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aparicio Virginia ◽  
Martín Zamora ◽  
Agustín Barbera ◽  
Mauricio Castro-Franco ◽  
Marisa Domenech ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Industrial Agriculture ◽  
Transition Systems ◽  
Agroecological Transition

scholarly journals Agroecological Transitions: A Systematic Review of Research Approaches and Prospects for Participatory Action Methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erwan Sachet ◽  
Ole Mertz ◽  
Jean-François Le Coq ◽  
Gisella S. Cruz-Garcia ◽  
Wendy Francesconi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Agroecological Transition ◽  
The One ◽  
Primary Type

There have been many calls for an agroecological transition to respond to food shocks and crises stemming from conventional food systems. Participatory action research and transformative epistemologies, where communities are research actors rather than objects, have been proposed as a way to enhance this transition. However, despite numerous case studies, there is presently no overview of how participatory approaches contribute to agroecological transitions. The present article therefore aims to understand the effect of applying participatory action research (PAR) in agroecology. We undertook a systematic review of articles reporting methods and results from case studies in agroecological research. On the one hand, our systematic review of 347 articles shows that the agroecological research scope is broad, with all three types—as science, a set of practices and social movement—well-represented in the corpus. However, we can see a clear focus on agroecology “as a set of practices” as the primary type of use of the concept. On the other hand, we found a few case studies (23) with a participatory approach while most studies used extractive research methods. These studies show that understanding the drivers and obstacles for achieving an agroecological transition requires long-term research and trust between researchers and farmers. Such transformative epistemologies open doors to new questions on designing long-term PAR research in agroecology when confronted with a short-term project-based society.

scholarly journals Space-temporal Dynamics of Agriculture in the Primavera Municipality, Pará State, Brazil: Subsidies for Agroecological Transition

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 518
Author(s):  
Caio Cezar Ferreira de Souza ◽  
Marcos Antônio Souza dos Santos ◽  
Fabrício Khoury Rebello ◽  
Cyntia Meireles Martins ◽  
Maria Lúcia Bahia Lopes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Land Occupation ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Agroecological Transition ◽  
Mining Projects

The exploitation of natural resources to meet human needs for, among other reasons, the advancement of agriculture, livestock, and mining projects, causes changes in environmental systems in time and space. The research objective of this study is to evaluate the space-temporal dynamics of agriculture in the Primavera municipality, located in the Pará Northeast, from 1980 to 2018, and to offer subsidies for the agroecological transition of current agricultural production systems. The methodology is based on the analysis of land use and land cover maps, in three different periods (1984, 2008 and 2018), by using image processing from the LANDSAT (1984 and 2008) and Sentinel (2018) satellites. Agricultural sector characterization was also analyzed, by using secondary data on socioeconomic and productivity variables. The results show that, even after the setup of a large mining enterprise in the Primavera municipality, the agricultural sector did not show major changes in terms of land occupation, increasing from 23.3% (2008) to 29.3% (2018). In addition, when analyzing the agricultural sector, the technology level was found to be at a low level, with little use of chemical inputs and machines. Agricultural diversification was also found to be at a low level, with the cultivation of five crops, predominantly. It is necessary to seek alternatives to improve agricultural production, which can be made viable through the incorporation of sustainable production systems, based on agroecological principles.

scholarly journals Women working in animal husbandry: a study in the agroecological transition context

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduarda Lopes Ferreira ◽  
Rodrigo Alves Barros ◽  
Paula Dias Bevilacqua
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
Agroecological Transition

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the engagement of women in animal husbandry in agroecological transitions scenarios and reflects on the advancements and challenges encountered in overcoming gender inequalities in rural areas. Semi-structured interviews and participant observation were conducted in nine properties in three municipalities in the region of Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais State. Women are involved in husbandry of different animal species, and participate in the management, processing, and marketing of products, contributing to food diversification, self-consumption, and income generation. Overcoming gender inequality in an agroecological scenario requires making the work and knowledge of women farmers visible and increasing their prominence, while ensuring economic valuation of their work and access to the market through public policies aligned with the reality of animal production in agroecological family agriculture contexts.

scholarly journals Evolution of Short Food Supply Chain Innovation Niches and Its Anchoring to the Socio-Technical Regime: The Case of Direct Selling through Collective Action in North-West Portugal

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13598
Author(s):  
Fabíola Sostmeyer Polita ◽  
Lívia Madureira
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
North West ◽  
Agroecological Transition ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Level Scale ◽  
Institutional Actors ◽  
Policy Proposals ◽  
Intervening Factors

This paper employs MLP (Multi Level Perspective) applied to a study on the transition to SFSC (short food supply chain) innovation taking place in North-West Portugal. MLP allows capturing transition phenomena and analysing them from a perspective that posits intervening factors and events on a three-level scale. Emphasis is laid on the institutional actors and factors that influence these processes, namely the Three Interrelated Analytic Dimensions and Types of Anchoring. Methodologically, personal interviews were conducted with 34 farmers who either are carrying out SFSC initiatives, or have dropped out, or even have never considered participating in them. A process of anchoring the innovation to the local socio-technical regime has been identified, characterised by a low buy-in from institutions and stakeholders. The anchoring that has been found has the peculiarity of occurring only in some points of the intersection between niche and regime, in a process in which it survives bordering this threshold, thanks to the mobilisation of multiple innovations. This type of anchoring, not yet described in the literature, draws attention to a possible pathway that innovations can follow, and brings implications for projects and for policy proposals to support the agroecological transition.

scholarly journals The Political Ecology of Hedgerows and Their Relationship to Agroecology and Food Sovereignty in the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Tilzey
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Soil Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Agroecological Transition ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Ecosystem Disservices

Hedgerows can make an important contribution to agroecological transitions and to an overall contribution to multifunctional agro-ecosystems with multiple benefits for biodiversity, climate change mitigation, soil health, human health, well-being, and livelihoods. Where such agroecological transition assumes the form of political agroecology, this can underpin transformation of the farming system towards food sovereignty. Current mismanagement of hedgerows is constraining the optimum delivery of ecosystem services by these important features of the British landscape. This mismanagement is, moreover, an integral part of a (capitalist) productivist degradation of the countryside that is contributing to the delivery of ecosystem disservices and is, therefore, antithetical to the adoption of agroecological production practises. Being contrary to the requirements of political agroecology, it is similarly antithetical to the requirements of food sovereignty. In response, this paper outlines what appears to be required, in policy and political terms, for the adoption of an agroecological and food sovereignty framework enabling the sustainable management of hedgerows and maximising their potential for ecosystem services delivery.

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