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Agroecology and the search fro a truly sustainable agriculture

By:

Altieri, Miguel A

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: UNEP. Environmental Training Network for Latin America and the Caribbean Mexico, D.F.MX 2005Description: 290 pAction note:

10/23/12 SANDRAW

Summary: Focuses on sustainable agriculture and its importance to sustainable development. Demystifies the latest wave of the biotechnological revolution as a renewed panacea the solve the world's hunger. States that agroecology seeks to root sustainable agricultural production in ecological potentials and cultural values; to open dialogue between scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom; to empower farmers, peasants and indigenous peoples as social actors to renew their community based practices. Opens new paths towards agricultural sustainability, food security and self-management of the local resources through agroecological productive practices.

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Focuses on sustainable agriculture and its importance to sustainable development. Demystifies the latest wave of the biotechnological revolution as a renewed panacea the solve the world's hunger. States that agroecology seeks to root sustainable agricultural production in ecological potentials and cultural values; to open dialogue between scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom; to empower farmers, peasants and indigenous peoples as social actors to renew their community based practices. Opens new paths towards agricultural sustainability, food security and self-management of the local resources through agroecological productive practices.

10/23/12 SANDRAW

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