Author Contacs: Timothy J. KRUPNIK, StudentResearcher with WARDA/ ADRAO and Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies (Agroecology). University of California, Santa Cruz. Email: [email protected] and Dr. Makfousse SARR, National Coordinator of the Programme GIPD (FAO) for Senegal. [email protected] Current Research and Evaluation Efforts of the System of Rice Intensification in the Senegal Rive...

This article offers a framework for evaluating agroecological principles, practices, and claims. Advocates of agroecology offer principles sustainable, productive, efficient agricultural systems. The evaluation question that immediately inevitably arises in the face such claims is: Does work? Thus do 2 fields inquiry intersect: agroecology. But there are many approaches to models evaluation. ch...

As the gravity of global social and ecological crises become more apparent, there is a growing recognition need for transformation. In this article, we use combination narrative case study discourse analysis to better understand how transformative concepts, such as agroecology, are shaped they enter mainstream discursive arenas. We probe different characteristics “innovation frame” qualify give...

J. E. Moeslund ([email protected]), P. K. B ø cher and J.-C. Svenning, Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity Group, Dept of Bioscience, Aarhus Univ., Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. – JEM and L. Arge, Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO), Dept of Computer Science, Aarhus Univ., IT-parken, Å bogade 34, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark. – JEM and T. Dalgaard, Agricultural Sy...

This paper presents the requirements for the provision of a multilingual educational platform, as these emerge out of the usage and exploitation of digital educational content related to Organic Agriculture (OA) and Agroecology (AE). The results come as an intermediate output of an actual platform implemented in the context of the EU eContentplus program Organic.Edunet, which aims at deploying ...

Three new species of Austrophthiracarus (Oribatida: Phthiracaridae) from New Zealand are described: Austrophthiracarus matuku sp. nov. from the Bethells Matuku Reserve, Auckland, Austrophthiracarus notoporosus sp. nov. from the Tutoko Bench, Fiordland and Austrophthiracarus karioi sp. nov. from the Mt. Karioi, Waikato. Holotype specimens are deposited in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection, La...

The programme was launched on the basis of the European approach to ecological agriculture. Ecological agriculture mainly concentrates on biological processes, which in the field, however, did not permit to take socioeconomic, cultural and political aspects into consideration. The concept of the programme therefore gradually changed towards agroecology, which sees the agroecosystem as the resul...