A s the title implies, this book offers an ecological viewpoint of agriculture. The reader will come away with an understanding of the basic ecological processes and principles that govern the structure and function of agroecosystems, and— more importantly—an awareness of how these principles can be applied to solve the environmental and sustainability crisis of modern agriculture. Guided by hi...

The concept of sustainable agriculture is a relatively recent response to the decline in the quality of the natural resource base associated with modern agriculture (McIsaac and Edwards 1994). Today, the question of agricultural production has evolved from a purely technical one to a more complex one characterized by social, cultural, political and economic dimensions. The concept of sustainabi...

Agroecology has become an ideological foundation for social and environmental transformation in sub-Saharan Africa. In Senegal, agroecological advocacy coalitions, made up of farmers’ organizations, scientists, NGOs, IOs, are using agroecology as umbrella concept proposing policy changes at multiple scales. We describe the history movement Senegal context constitution a national coalition. then...

In 2020–2021 the Covid-19 crisis worsened harms from hegemonic agribusiness model, while also providing opportunities for alternatives. Since long before crisis, Latin American civil society networks had been building an agroecology-based solidarity economy (here EcoSol-agroecology short). These have linked agroecological production methods with collective marketing through short food-supply ch...

In the Colombian Andes, farming communities face complex challenges involving conflict, climate change, peacebuilding and rural reconstruction. Organized around agroecology, farmers generate associativity processes, self-managed extension work popular education pedagogies. This strengthens social fabric of these enhances their adaptive capacities, enabling them to persist in context adversity.T...

The role of deformed wing virus in the initial collapse of varroa infested honey bee colonies in the UK Stephen J Martin , Brenda V Ball and Norman L Carreck School of Environment and Life Sciences, The University of Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. AgroEcology Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK. Present address: 104, Lower Luton Road, Wheathampstead,...

Coupled carbon-water exchange of the Amazon rain forest, II. Comparison of predicted and observed seasonal exchange of energy, CO2, isoprene and ozone at a remote site in Rondônia E. Simon, F. X. Meixner, U. Rummel, L. Ganzeveld, C. Ammann, and J. Kesselmeier Biogeochemistry Dept., Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany Meteorologisches Observatorium Lindenberg, Deutscher Wetterdien...

To raise public awareness on the environmental and economic benefits of organic agriculture and agroecology (OA & AE), education is considered key. The EU funded project Organic.Edunet aims at providing a freely-available portal where learning contents on OA & AE can be published and accessed through specialized technologies. This paper describes a system for providing semantic capabilities (su...

ISHS XXXI International Horticultural Congress (IHC2022): Symposium on Agroecology and System Approach for Sustainable Resilient Production Innovative agroforestry designs tropical plantation landscapes – the TRAILS project

Agroecology has been a focus of intense debate in France since 2012, when the idea was explicitly adopted as national policy objective by Ministry Agriculture. This article intervenes this documenting and describing an under-recognized, “silent” agroecology practiced conventional farmers contending with variety threats—economic, technical, climatic—to their farming systems. Inspired sociology d...