Agroecological principles and elements and their implications for transitioning to sustainable food systems. A review

A Wezel, BG Herren, RB Kerr, E Barrios… - Agronomy for …, 2020 - Springer
There is consensus that the global food system is not delivering good nutrition for all and is
causing environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity, such that a profound …

Pathways for the amplification of agroecology

CI Nicholls, MA Altieri - Agroecology and Sustainable Food …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A transition to an agriculture based on agroecological principles would provide
rural families with significant socioeconomic and environmental benefits. If agroecology has …

UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Dismantling democracy and resetting corporate control of food systems

M Canfield, MD Anderson, P McMichael - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This article analyzes the development and organization of the United Nations Food Systems
Summit (UNFSS), which is being convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres in …

From transition to domains of transformation: Getting to sustainable and just food systems through agroecology

CR Anderson, J Bruil, MJ Chappell, C Kiss, MP Pimbert - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
The acceleration of ecological crises has driven a growing body of thinking on sustainability
transitions. Agroecology is being promoted as an approach that can address multiple crises …

Assessing transitions to sustainable agricultural and food systems: a tool for agroecology performance evaluation (TAPE)

A Mottet, A Bicksler, D Lucantoni, F De Rosa… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
There is increasing interest in agroecology as a way to move toward more sustainable
agriculture and food systems. However, the evidence of agroecology's contribution to …

Bringing agroecology to scale: Key drivers and emblematic cases

M Mier y Terán Giménez Cacho… - … and sustainable food …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Agroecology as a transformative movement has gained momentum in many countries
worldwide. In several cases, the implementation of agroecological practices has grown …

Development pathways toward “zero hunger”

J Blesh, L Hoey, AD Jones, H Friedmann, I Perfecto - World Development, 2019 - Elsevier
Globally, industrial agriculture threatens critical ecosystem processes on which crop
production depends, while 815 million people are undernourished and many more suffer …

La Via Campesina – transforming agrarian and knowledge politics, and co-constructing a field: a laudatio

SM Borras Jr - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT La Via Campesina has revalorized agrarian politics, transformed knowledge
politics, and co-constructed the field of Critical Agrarian Studies. It has shown the important …

[HTML][HTML] Agroforestry transitions: The good, the bad and the ugly

OI Ollinaho, M Kröger - Journal of Rural Studies, 2021 - Elsevier
This article canvasses the current definitions and framings of “agroforestry” in different
academic literature and policies. Three key framings of “agroforestry” are identified in the …

Agroecology: Challenges and opportunities for farming in the Anthropocene

MA Altieri, CI Nicholls - … revista latinoamericana de ciencias de la …, 2020 - dialnet.unirioja.es
The multiple crises facing humanity at the onset of the Anthropocene are creating a moment
in which agroecology acquires greater relevance as an alternative approach for meeting …