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T.G. Morais ; R.F.M. Teixeira ; C. Lauk ; M.C. Theurl ; W. Winiwarter ; A. Mayer ; L. Kaufmann ; H. Haberl ; T. Domingos ; K.-H. Erb |Sustainable food systems face trade-offs between demands of low environmental pressures per unit area and requirements of increasing production. Organic farming has lower yields than conventional agriculture and requires the introduction of nitr[...]Article
Parmi les alliacées, le merchandising constitue un indispensable instrument de stimulation économique. Depuis quelques années, il se teinte de plus en plus d'allégations agroécologiques. De quoi raconter plein d'histoires au consommateur.Article
Whereas many studies adopting a broad perspective on sustainability have highlighted the differences and interactions between alternative and conventional models of agricultural production, very few have investigated the contradictions internal [...]Article
The global community faces the challenge of feeding a growing population with declining resources, making transformation to sustainable agriculture and food systems all the more imperative and innovation all the more crucial. In this study, ag[...]Article
Dans une optique de transition agroécologique, il y a une demande croissante pour évaluer si et comment la diversité au sein des systèmes délevage peut accroître leur multiperformance. Nous proposons une analyse croisée de la capacité de cinq o[...]Article
R. Bezner Kerr ; S. Madsen ; M. Stüber ; J. Liebert ; S. Enloe ; N. Borghino ; P. Parros ; D.M. Mutyambai ; M. Prudhon ; A. Wezel |Agroecology increasingly has gained scientific and policy recognition as having potential to address environmental and social issues within food production, but concerns have been raised about its implications for food security and nutrition, pa[...]Article
CONTEXT There is an urgent need to reduce the use of phytosanitary products in industrial vegetables due to environmental and health concerns. However, as in many industrial sectors, vegetables production is characterised by strong constraints r[...]Article
This article analyzes the adoption of practices face to the ecological and social issues and the constraints perception to agroecological development in the MZab Valley. The socioecological approach shows that the current agrosystem is hybrid[...]Article
One of the factors threatening the sustainability of rural territories is the hegemonic agro-industrial model, whose environmental and social impacts strongly limit rural life. Here, we want to call attention to the opportunities provided by alt[...]Article
M. Lazali ; S. Boudsocq ; E. Taschen ; M. Farissi ; W. Hamdi ; P. Ralli ; H. Sentenac |Modern intensive agricultural systems generally focus on the productivity of monocultures. They are characterized by a low diversity of crops, with uniform and symmetrical planting layouts. They largely rely on the utilization of chemical inputs[...]Article
Les fermes maraîchères biologiques présentent une gamme de structures agricoles, associées à des pratiques avec différents niveaux d'agroécologie et différents niveaux de recours aux intrants. Une analyse typologique sur 165 fermes a permis de c[...]Article
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Context : Identifying and developing resilient farming and food systems has emerged as a top priority during the Covid-19 pandemic. Many academics suggest that farming and food systems should move towards agroecological models to achieve better [...]Article
La crise du Covid-19 aura eu ce mérite : non pas seulement mettre en lumière ces travailleurs invisibles que sont les salariés agricoles de tous bords, mais reconnaître leur caractère indispensable. Une « armée de lombre » placée subitement sou[...]Article
D. Vollet ; H. Bossuat ; P. Gasselin ; P. Labarthe ; F. Wallet ; A.-S. Barbarot ; M. Filippi ; D. Rousselière |Les Organismes nationaux à vocation agricole et rurale (Onvar) représentent des structures collectives très originales au service du développement durable intégré des territoires. Une grille issue de léconomie institutionnelle dappréciation de[...]Article
This study sheds light on a new generation of Swedish food producers, market gardeners, who are attracting attention in terms of food system sustainability, prompted by increasing consumer awareness about the value of healthy and locally produce[...]Article
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Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and pollutants, soil erosion and groundwater pollution are some of the negative aspects blamed on livestock farming, so their level of sustainability needs to be assessed, taking into account the territory in which[...]Article
While having failed to solve problems such as hunger or malnutrition, industrial agriculture appears to be causing additional ones both in environmental and health terms. Our author calls for a transformation of the food system and highlights th[...]Article
Diversification through agroecological principles may maintain and stabilize yields in an increasingly more unpredictable climate, including market price fluctuations, as well as preserve and enhance the threatened natural resource base and the [...]Article
G. Sethuraman ; N.A. Mohd Zain ; S. Yusoff ; Y.M. Ng ; N. Baisakh ; A. Cheng |Globally, farming systems are mostly dominated by monoculture, which has the advantage of profitability at the expense of ecological systems. Recent years have witnessed an increasing momentum in global efforts to deploy sustainable agriculture [...]Article
S. Zollet ; L. Colombo ; P. De Meo ; D. Marino ; S.R. McGreevy ; N. McKeon ; S. Tarra |The negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have further exposed and exacerbated the structural weaknesses and inequalities embedded in the global industrial agri-food system. While the mainstream narrative continues to emphasise the importanc[...]Article
P. Gate ; G. Lemaire ; M. Rieu |Le défi pour lagriculture mondiale est de continuer à augmenter la production de denrées agricoles tout en résorbant les impacts négatifs quelle provoque sur lenvironnement et la biodiversité. Or ces impacts ne sont pas fondamentalement dus à[...]Article
Agroecology can be considered an approach to farming and food systems which integrates the use of ecological principles and biological cycles methods of the traditional systems to the design and management of sustainable agriculture. Despite som[...]Article
Within the new "European Green Deal", the European Commission defined crucial challenges for the agriculture of future decades, such as making food production more sustainable by considering the local pedo-climatic and socio-economic specificiti[...]Article
Today's agricultural management decisions impact food security and sustainable ecosystems, even when operating with back-to-basic operations. In such endeavors, policymakers usually need a quantitative tool, such as trade-offs margins, to effect[...]Série
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A.K. Boulet ; C. Alarcao ; C. Ferreira ; Z. Kalantari ; A. Veiga ; L. Campos ; A. Ferreira ; R. Hessel |Grain corn is the main cereal produced in Portugal. It is grown in intensive monoculture cropping systems that may have negative effects on soil quality, affecting long-term fertility and productivity, and, therefore, the sustainability of the p[...]E-Book
C. Lamine, ed. ; D. Magda, ed. ; M. Rivera-Ferre, ed. ; T. Marsden, ed. | Bruxelles [Belgique] : PIE - Peter Lang | EcoPolis, ISSN 1377-7238 | 2021Debates around agroecology most often focus on the depth and radicality of the change and relate to different visions of agroecology, which tends to eclipse the ontological relationships of actors (or researchers) to the very change process it[...]