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