In the light of its negative impacts on environment and human health, conventional agriculture is currently facing new challenges; for example, reducing pesticide reliance, improving biodiversity, adapting to climate change reconciling winegrowers with consumers, which require changes be made vineyard management. A shift towards more sustainable via development agroecological systems may key me...

The purpose of the article is to study management experience sustainable development agriculture in context paradigm industrialized countries. To achieve goal, general scientific and special-scientific methods cognition were used, particular, dialectical, formal-logical, analysis synthesis, system-structural. This analyzes problems "deep reform choice", which goal creating an environmentally fr...

Given the novel character of disturbances caused by pandemic in food systems, initial studies have been conducted to stress reinforced urgent need for systems' transformation toward sustainability. First assessments, early months pandemic, found that local actors responded changing production and marketing conditions implementing alternative practices under umbrella agroecology. However, given ...

Agroecology proposes to mobilize the scientific and practical, traditional local knowledge of producers develop jointly new production systems. This article presents results research on biological control carried out since 2003 in north Uruguay. Experiences were conducted by different organizations family farmers BIO-Uruguay (Batoví Instituto Orgánico), a social organization founded rural inhab...

While agricultural issues were almost absent from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted in 1992, a window of opportunity opened favor their inclusion climate agenda during Conference Parties Durban 2011. During this period three concepts have emerged agenda-setting: “climate-smart agriculture,” “agroecology,” and “nature-based solutions.” By tracing these (their orig...

Considerable controversy continues to exist in scientific and policy circles about how to tackle issues of global hunger, malnutrition, and rural economic decline, as well as environmental issues, such as biodiversity loss and climate change adaptation. On the one hand, powerful vested interests, with close ties to government, media, and academic institutions, propose high-input technology-base...