Sentences with word «agroecological»

And so as the Polyfaces, White Oaks, Gunthorps, Jonai, Buena Vistas, and Old Mill farms of the world toil to grow food deeply embedded in our local communities and imbued with their values of respect for people and animals and care for the land, we must support them / us, just as we must find ways to help others get onto the land to grow more food in small - scale agroecological systems.

Small, family - owned farms that use agroecological techniques come closest to mimicking natural forest habitat, thereby creating corridors that allow plants and animals to migrate between forest fragments.

In an era of global climate change, it is more important than ever to invest in agricultural production systems that reduce vulnerability by embracing the merits of agroecological diversity.

Technological fixes such as GM crops destroy small - scale agroecological farming and allow corporations to control our lands and seed supply.

The first step is to redirect public money from factory farming and agribusiness towards small - scale agroecological family farms.

Real climate solutions are already out there in farmers» fields — based on agroecological practices and the relocalisation of food systems to effectively fight hunger.

A social science study into a group of British farmers who «redesigned» their farms to agroecological practices shows they benefited both practically and emotionally to sustainable agriculture.

Rice is produced in different agroecological zones, mainly in warm / cool humid subtropics with summer rainfall and in cool subtropics with summer rainfall.

It is merely one more attempt to block the real change needed to fix our broken food systems and our broken climate, change which instead must be based on food sovereignty and agroecological approaches for agriculture and food production and the effective reduction of greenhouse gases.

The science is clear: with agroecological methods of farming, like organic, we don't have to rely on toxic pesticides and synthetic fertilizers to produce abundant food.

IFOAM Latin America aims to develop influential proposals for the global organic and agroecological movements, based on realities of Latin America and Caribbean stakeholders.

Donors and major development agencies, particularly the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to support and help accelerate the uptake of organic agriculture and other agroecological systems as they are crucial to ensuring healthy food for all in the 21st century.

For years now, Plantin has been following and improving agroecological principles to protect its truffle orchards.

We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Sue Edwards.Sue was Director of Institute for Sustainable Development and one of the founders of the African Biodiversity Network and the Ecological and Organic Agriculture Initiative, helping thousands of farmers learn agroecological techniques.A committed organic advocate and long - standing member... more

When it comes to labour, that can be challenging, especially in more knowledge - & labour - intensive agroecological systems like those proliferating in the fair food farming movement.

UN Special Rapporteur Olivier De Schutter in particular has backed a new, intensified but ecologically sensitive approach, in particular agroecological production:

To date, agroecological projects have shown an average crop increase of 80 % in 57 developing countries, with an average increase of 116 % for all African projects.

Ironically moves towards geoengineering may close down agroecological options: CDR [Carbon Dioxide Removal] approaches such as BECCS [Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Sequestration] would grab even more peasant lands to grow biomass feedstocks (causing suffering); sulfate aerosols may disrupt the very tropical climates that peasant farmers rely on (causing suffering?)

«These are each potentially transformative options, but they are not yet enough to create the menus of options needed for diverse agroecological systems and farmers to meet a mitigation target for 2 °C,» the researchers write.

Be among the first to learn about a new Friends of the Earth report, Farming for the Future: Organic and Agroecological Solutions to Feed the World.

In fact, report co-author John Vandermeer says he advocates breaking up large - scale farms and incentives to encourage «a large number of small - scale farmers, each managing the land to best of his or her ability, using agroecological techniques.

There's already plenty of reason to believe that a holistic, agroecological approach to farming can outperform chemically dependent agriculture in many situations.

While the Committee has suggested that these purposes are contradictory, AFSA respectfully submits that the regenerative, agroecological farming movement offers an alternative in which increased population on farms is desirable and supports the purpose of farming as the priority activity.

The organic industry is at the beginning of a process with the structuring of a work order established in chains: primary, with a large number of small and micro-producers, agroecological and family farming agriculture; and in the secondary sector, with small and innovative entrepreneurs to large processors and industries which see an alternative viable business in organic.

«Ours is a country with a varying topography and agroecological zones.

Agroecological farming is promoted as the practical solution that can aid in achieving this.

Agroforestry is one of the most common land use systems across landscapes and agroecological zones in Africa but need much more adoption in order to increase the impact on food security.

The Agroecological Zone (AEZ) model categorizes the world's land by: current cover (e.g. forest, grassland, cropland), thermal climate, moisture regime, soil quality, slope, and state of degradation.

Agroecological techniques can include the use of biological controls instead of pesticides, the use of compost or other organic matter instead of chemical fertilizers, and the use of agroforestry methods, which involve growing crops beneath a canopy of trees or growing crops mixed with fruit trees such as mangoes or avocados.

Except that, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, based on case studies throughout Central and South America it doesn't quite work that way: Agroecological Techniques Needed to Maintain Biodiversity Corridors Ivette Perfecto of the University of Michigan says the best way to preserve biodiversity in fragmented areas of tropical forest is to allow animals to migrate between the patches.

Large scale agriculture doesn't allow that, but small - scale agriculture based on «agroecological» techniques can.