Altieri, Miguel A. creator text Mexico, D.F.MX UNEP. Environmental Training Network for Latin America and the Caribbean 2005 monographic 290 p. 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 07.01.01 A468