{"id":52610,"date":"2019-09-27T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=52610"},"modified":"2019-09-27T14:33:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:03:18","slug":"answered-what-do-you-understand-by-the-term-agroecology-how-agroecology-is-a-better-alternative-to-other-climate-smart-agriculture-models","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-what-do-you-understand-by-the-term-agroecology-how-agroecology-is-a-better-alternative-to-other-climate-smart-agriculture-models\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] What do you understand by the term \u2018Agroecology\u2019. How Agroecology is a better alternative to other climate smart agriculture models?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction. <\/strong>What is Agrocecology?
Body. <\/strong>Advantages of Agrocecology as a practice. Why Agrocecology is better alternative to climate smart Agriculture?
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Agroecology is an integrated approach that simultaneously applies ecological and social concepts and principles to the design and management of food and agricultural systems. It seeks to optimise the interactions between plants, animals, humans and the environment while taking into consideration the social aspects that need to be addressed for a sustainable and fair food system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advantages of Agroecology as a practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Agroecology is fundamentally\ndifferent from other approaches to sustainable development. It is based on\nbottom-up and territorial processes, helping to deliver contextualised\nsolutions to local problems. <\/li>
  2. Agroecological innovations are based\non the co-creation of knowledge, combining science with the traditional,\npractical and local knowledge of producers. <\/li>
  3. By enhancing autonomy and adaptive\ncapacity, agroecology empowers producers and communities as key agents of\nchange.<\/li>
  4. Rather than tweaking the practices\nof unsustainable agricultural systems, agroecology seeks to transform food and\nagricultural systems, addressing the root causes of problems in an integrated\nway and providing holistic and long-term solutions. This includes an explicit\nfocus on social and economic dimensions of food systems.<\/li>
  5. Agroecology places a strong focus on\nthe rights of women, youth and indigenous peoples.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Why Agroecology is better alternative to Climate-Smart agriculture?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Agroecology and CSA are\nfundamentally different in important regards. For example, CSA does not exclude\npractices and technologies that can undermine, or are incompatible with,\nagroecological approaches. <\/li>
    2. Agroecology in the context of food\nsovereignty goes much further than Climate-smart Agriculture\u2019s focus on\nagricultural production alone.<\/li>
    3. CSA \nrepresents a continuation of business-as-usual and industrial\nagriculture in which farmers are increasingly dependent on agrochemical\ncorporations for external inputs and global commodity markets for the sale of\ntheir farm produce. <\/li>
    4. CSA\u2019s practices are not at all\ncompatible with the more transformative visions of agroecology.<\/li>
    5. By promoting the rights of people to\naccess natural resources, agroecology supports them to produce their own food\nand make decisions about the food they want to eat.<\/li>
    6. Agroecology is better than Climate\nSmart Agriculture because it builds on the knowledge and experience of local\nfarmers to keep the soil fertile and to adapt to climate change. <\/li>
    7. Agroecology reduces our dependence\non fossil fuels preserves women\u2019s knowledge on traditional seeds, and gives\nthem more control over their own income and resources. <\/li>
    8. It also promotes social values such\nas community solidarity, environmental preservation, and the cultural\ndimensions of food, which all contribute to building stable and healthy\nsocieties.<\/li>
    9. The house of agroecology is\ntherefore not a laboratory. It is the hands of the millions of local farmers,\nwomen and men, who for centuries have saved their seeds, managed their soils\nand adapted to changing environments.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Agroecology is the most viable solution for building farmers\u2019 food security and their resilience to climate change. Counties must train millions of farmers in developing countries to support their transition from conventional agriculture to agroecology. Also support for organisations to influence national and global public policies to support agroecology is important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Demand of the question Introduction. What is Agrocecology? Body. Advantages of Agrocecology as a practice. Why Agrocecology is better alternative to climate smart Agriculture? Conclusion. Way forward. Agroecology is an integrated approach that simultaneously applies ecological and social concepts and principles to the design and management of food and agricultural systems. It seeks to optimise… Continue reading [Answered] What do you understand by the term \u2018Agroecology\u2019. How Agroecology is a better alternative to other climate smart agriculture models?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49132,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52610","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}