Catégorie : Agriculture syntropique

Taking agroecology to scale: the Zero Budget Natural Farming peasant movement in Karnataka, India

Ashlesha Khadse, Peter Michael Rosset, Helda Morales & Bruce G. Ferguson This paper analyzes how peasant movements scale up agroecology. It specifically examines Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), a grassroots peasant agroecology movement in Karnataka, India. ZBNF ends reliance on purchased inputs and loans for farming, positioning itself as a solution to extreme indebtedness and suicides among Indian farmers. The […]

Transitions in agriculture: Three frameworks highlighting coexistence between a new agroecological configuration and an old, organic and conventional configuration of vegetable production in Wallonia (Belgium)

Antoinette M. Dumonta,⁎, Pierre Gasselinb, Philippe V. Baretc The contribution of the multi-level perspective (MLP) to study transition dynamics is widely recognized. MLP involves examining interactions between three socio-technical levels: niche, regime and landscape. Empirical analysis of niche-regime interactions when applying this framework to agricultural transitions to sustainability remains challenging, however. The diversity of historical farming systems within a region […]

Targeting perennial vegetation in agricultural landscapes for enhancing ecosystem services

H. Asbjornsen1,2*, V. Hernandez-Santana1,2,3, M. Liebman4, J. Bayala5, J. Chen6, M. Helmers7, C.K. Ong8 and L.A. Schulte1† Over the past century, agricultural landscapes worldwide have increasingly been managed for the primary purpose of producing food, while other diverse ecosystem services potentially available from these landscapes have often been undervalued and diminished. The incorporation of relatively small amounts of perennial vegetation […]

Food sovereignty or bust Transforming the agrifood system is a must

Joshua Sbicca The fight for food sovereignty is a response to the current corporate food regime, one predicated on industrial modes of production, corporate concentration in supply chains, the patenting of seeds and biotechnology, and neoliberal trade policies that displace agrifood systems in poor and developing countries (McMichael, 2009a). While peasants throughout the Global South fare poorly as their land […]

Environmental Mitigation And Adaptation As Key Factors For Increasing Water Demand

Andi Setyo Pambudi, University of Indonesia In daily life, the term environment has become popular in the community both among politicians, scientists, and society in general (Pambudi, 2019). The environment is defined as the area (region, etc.) and includes the resources in it, while the natural environment defines as the surrounding circumstances (conditions, forces) that affect the development and behavior […]