2019
DOI: 10.3390/su11195272
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Abstract: The acceleration of ecological crises has driven a growing body of thinking on sustainability transitions. Agroecology is being promoted as an approach that can address multiple crises in the food system while addressing climate change and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals. Beyond the more technical definition as, “the ecology of food systems”, agroecology has a fundamentally political dimension. It is based on an aspiration towards autonomy or the agency of networks of producers and citizens t… Show more

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“…The "sustainability of small farms" discussion occurs at all levels but is most present at the "agroecology as a movement" level where the primary concepts of agroecology resonate with arguments for food security, food sovereignty and sustainable rural development [8,44]. Accordingly, the present understanding of agroecology as a social movement (especially, but not exclusively, for peasant farmers) provides a productive basis for rural movements that promote food sovereignty [4].…”
Section: Agroecology and Small Farmsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The "sustainability of small farms" discussion occurs at all levels but is most present at the "agroecology as a movement" level where the primary concepts of agroecology resonate with arguments for food security, food sovereignty and sustainable rural development [8,44]. Accordingly, the present understanding of agroecology as a social movement (especially, but not exclusively, for peasant farmers) provides a productive basis for rural movements that promote food sovereignty [4].…”
Section: Agroecology and Small Farmsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The reasons for the moderate use of external inputs in small farms are strongly related to low spending power of most of these operations. Yet, a functional understanding of agroecological processes (as a consequence of traditional ecological observation due to age-long collective agroecosystem observation), as well as an intact knowledge about traditional farming practices, also play an essential role for the lower demand for external inputs [8,24]. Furthermore, not only do small farms use less external resources than large farms, the use of internal (including land and water) and external resources is also more efficient [24,31,50,51].…”
Section: Arguments (According To Authors) For Sustainability Advantagmentioning
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“…Agroecology has moved from being an ecologybased discipline, defined by five principles (i.e. efficiency, diversity, synergies, natural regulation and recycling), to being a broader, multidimensional concept that required additional principles to be defined, such as those in the realm of social, political and economic disciplines and dimensions (Altieri 1995;Wezel et al 2014;Gliessman 2015;Dumont et al 2016;Anderson et al 2019a). Three major stepsincreasing eco-efficiency, input substitution, system re-design -have been identified in the transition towards more sustainable agriculture and food systems (Tittonell 2014;Pretty 2018), based on the early descriptions of agroecological transitions put forward by Gliessman (1998) and others in the last century.…”
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“…For many the evidence is clear: agroecology, together with 'food sovereignty', offer a pathway for more just and sustainable food systems and communities. The questions that remain are about how to foster the enabling conditions, and mitigate the disabling ones, so that agroecology can flourish (Anderson et al 2020).…”
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