Partners for the Land & Agricultural Needs of Traditional Peoples

  • Home
  • About PLANT
    • Mission Statement >
      • Staff >
        • Board of Directors
  • What We Do
  • Contact PLANT
  • Support PLANT
  • Agroecology Resource Center
  • Earth Jurisprudence
  • Food & Seed Sovereignty
  • Land Grabbing & Carbon Trade
  • Perspectives
  • Hot Topics
 

AGROECOLOGY ARTICLES
Articles related to AgroEcology
In alphabetical order by title


Africa Doesn't Need a Green Revolution.  It Needs Agroecology
Dan Taylor, The Ecologist -- 23 Sep 2009


Agroecologically Efficient Agricultural Systems for Smallholder Farmers: Contributions to Food Sovereignty
Miguel A. Altieri, Fernando R. Funes-Monzote, Paulo Petersen, Agronomy for Sustainable Development, INRA and Springer-Verlag, France -- 2011


Agroecology Articles Link
Agroecology in Action: Agroecological Knowledge and Technologies into Practice
Miguel Altieri et al.


Agroecology as a Science, a Movement and a Practice
A. Wezel et al., EDP Sciences -- 2009


Agroecology Fact Sheet: Proof is in - We Know How to Grow Enough Food Without Harmful Chemicals
Small Planet Institute -- 2013


Agroecology, Small Farms, and Food Security
Miguel Altieri, Monthly Review, Vol. 61, 03 (July/Aug) -- 2009


Bhaskar Save, The Ghandi of Natural Farming 
Bharat Mansate (excerpt from his book "The Vision of Natural Farming), Institute of Science in Society -- 24 Feb 2014 
"Natural farming is holistic and bio-diverse organic farming in harmony with nature.  It is low-intervention, ecological and sustainable.  In its purest advanced form, it is a ‘do-nothing’ way of farming where nature does everything, or almost everything, so very little needs to be done by the farmer."


Building, Defending and Strengthening Agroecology: A Global Struggle for Food Sovereignty 
Colin Anderson, Michel Pimbert, Csilla Kiss, Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience -- Sep 2015
"A movement is growing.  While agroecology has been practiced for millennia in places around the world, today we are witnessing how social movements are calling for agroecology as the pathway towards a more just, sustainable and viable food and agriculture system.  They claim agroecology as a bottom up movement and practice that needs to be supported, rather than led, by science and policy.  From this perspective, agroecology is inseparable from food sovereignty: the right of citizens to control food policy and practice."


Don't Let Food Be the Problem: Producing Too Much Food is What Starves the World
Olivier De Shutter, Foreign Policy -- Jul/Aug 2015

"Agroecology aims to reduce the use of external fossil fuel-based inputs, to recycle waste, and to combine elements of nature to maximize synergies.  It treats the complexity of nature not as a liability, but as an asset.  The farmer learns by trial and error, even when the ultimate “scientific” explanation may remain elusive; long at the receiving end of technological developments, he or she will now determine what works best in a local context."


Farming and Knowledge: Monocultures Are Misconceived 
Brian Wynne and Georgina Catacora-Vargas, SciDev Net -- 03 Sep 2013


Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now 
Frances Moore Lappé, Great Transitions Initiative -- Apr 2016
"The primary obstacle to sustainable food security is an economic model and thought system, embodied in industrial agriculture, that views life in disassociated parts, obscuring the destructive impact this approach has on humans, natural resources, and the environment. "


Food Sovereignty: Global Rallying Cry of Farmer Movements
Peter Rosset, Food First, Vol. 9, No. 4 -- 2003


From Farm to Fork: Healthy People Depend on Healthy Food Systems 
Olivier De Schutter, The Journal.ie -- 16 Oct 2013


Green Agriculture: Foundations for Biodiverse, Resilient and Productive Agricultural Systems
Parviz Koohafkan, Miguel A. Altieri, Eric Holt-Gimenez, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, Vol. 10, Issue 1 -- 2012


How Agricultural Research Systems Shape a Technnological Regime That Develops Genetic Engineering But Locks Out Agroecological Innovations
Gaëtan Vanloqueren & Philippe V. Baret, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium -- Research Policy 971-983 -- 2009


Only Small Farmers and Agroecology Can Feed the World [Article reporting on the speech by Prof. Hilal Elver, the new UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, coinciding with the FAO International Symposium on Agroecology for Food and Nutrition]
Nafeez Ahmed, The Ecologist -- 23 Sep 2014 
"Governments must shift subsidies and research funding from agro-industrial monoculture to small farmers using 'agroecological' methods" 

See also:
Scientists Praise and Challenge FAO on Agroecology [open letter to the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food and Nutrition] -- 18-19 Sep 2014


Organic Farming Will Feed the World: Astonishingly, It's More Productive than High-Tech Agriculture
George Monbiot, The Guardian -- 24 Aug 2000
"Organic cultivation has been characterised as an enemy of progress for the simple reason that it cannot be monopolised: it can be adopted by any farmer anywhere on earth, without the help of multinational companies."


Our Good Earth: The Future Rests on the Soil Beneath Our Feet
Charles C. Mann, National Geographic Magazine -- Sep 2008


Recent Patterns of Crop Yield Growth and Stagnation 
Ray, D.K. et al. Nat. Commun. 3:1293 doi: 10.1038/ncomms2296 -- 2012 
"In the coming decades, continued population growth, rising meat and dairy consumption and expanding biofuel use will dramatically increase the pressure on global agriculture.  Even as we face these future burdens, there have been scattered reports of yield stagnation in the world’s major cereal crops, including maize, rice and wheat."


Saving Native Seeds to Protect Food Heritage in Mexico
South-North Development Monitor (SUNS) via Third World Network -- 2011


The Agroecological Revolution in Latin America: Rescuing Nature, Ensuring Food Sovereignty and Empowering Peasants
Miguel Altieri & Victor Manuel Toledo, Journal of Peasant Studies -- 2011


The Case for Small Farms: Interview with Peter Rosset
The Multinational Monitor, Vol. 21, No. 7 & 8 -- Jul/Aug 2000
Published by Essential Information, Inc -- 2005


The Man Who Stopped the Desert, Mantoe Phakathi
IPS Africa -- 2011


The New Green Revolution: How Twenty-First-Century Science Can Feed the World
Olivier de Shutter & Gaëtan Vanloqueren, Solutions for a Sustainable and Desirable Future -- 2011


UK Needs Scientific Research into Agroecology Not GM
Patrick Mulvany, The Ecologist -- 25 Jan 2012


Women Farmers Feed the World
Christa Hillstrom and Fatou Batta, Yes! Magazine, 22 Oct 2011


Why We Need an Agroecological Revolution 
Olivier de Shutter, in Rural 21 -- 25 Jun 2018
"As a contribution to the science of agronomics, agroecology aims to reduce the use of external fossil-based inputs, to recycle waste, and to combine different elements of nature in the process of production in order to maximise synergies between them. But agroecology is more than a range of agronomic techniques that present some of these characteristics. It is both a certain way of thinking of our relationship to Nature and a social movement that is growing."


Support PLANT