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Agroecological strategies to safeguard insect pollinators in biodiversity hotspots: Chile as a case study
(MDPI, 2021)
Industrial agriculture (IA) has been recognized among the main drivers of biodiversity loss, climate change, and native pollinator decline. Here we summarize the known negative effects of IA on pollinator biodiversity and ...
Salvadora persica agro-ecological suitability for oil production in Argentine dryland salinity
(Elsevier Science, 2015-12)
One of the major causes of crop stress is soil or water salinity. Thus, selection of the best species for cultivation in semiarid and arid climates is fundamental.Salvadora persica is an evergreen perennial halophyte that ...
Zero Budget Natural Farming in India - From inception to institutionalizationAgricultura natural de presupuesto cero en India - Desde su inicio hasta su institucionalización
(2021-12-01)
This paper delineates the growth of Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) in India. From its origins as a peasant-led social movement in the state of Karnataka, to becoming institutionalized in a state program in Andhra ...
Developing an Agro-Ecological Zoning Model for Tumbleweed (Salsola kali), as Energy Crop in Drylands of Argentina
(Riga Technical University, 2016-12-01)
Salsola kali is considered extremely valuable as an energy crop worldwide because it adapts easily to environments with strong abiotic stresses (hydric, saline and alkaline) and produces large amounts of biomass in drylands. ...
Re-conceptualizing and decolonizing resilience from a peasant perspective
(2021-01-01)
The objective of this initial conceptual essay is to question conventional approaches and propose a new reading–from the perspective of the peasant world–of the concept of resilience. There is a need for critical reflections ...
Education, work and vocational training in the MST: the experience of the Course of Agroecology of the Milton Santos School
(Univ Federal Tocantins, Campus Tocantinopolis, 2019-01-01)
In the process of occupation and conquest of agrarian reform settlements, the Movement of Landless Workers implants innumerable educational experiences at different levels and modalities of education to meet the right to ...
A tecnologia social PAIS (produção agroecológica integrada e sustentável), em assentamentos do território rural prof. Cory/Andradina (SP): Um instrumento para a promoção da transição agroecológica?
(2017-01-01)
We analyze the possible contributions of PAIS Social Technology in relation to the stimulation and consolidation of agroecological transition processes, based on the experiences of families settled in the Rural Territory ...
Agroecological innovation constructing socionatural order for social transformation: two case studies in BrazilLa innovación agroecológica construyendo el orden socionatural para la transformación social: dos estudios de caso brasileñosInovação agroecológica construindo ordem socionatural para transformação social: dois estudos de caso brasileiros
(2021-01-01)
The Green Revolution exemplifies the capital-intensive modernization model of resource plunder and labor exploitation. This has provoked small-scale producers and civil society groups to counterpose an agroecology-based ...
Interfaces between rural education and agroecology in rural settlement areas in the state of paranáLas interfaces entre la educación del campo y la agroecología en áreas de asentamientos rurales en el estado de paranáInterfaces entre a educação do campo e a agroecologia em áreas de assentamentos rurais no estado do paraná
(2020-01-01)
This work questions the relationship between rural education and agroecology in rural settlement areas linked to the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST). It starts off from the assumption that agroecology, as a ...
Inventory of Agroecological Practices as part of the Peasant to Peasant Methodology in Ceará: An instrument to decolonize a territory and (re)value peasant knowledgeInventário de Práticas Agroecológicas na Metodologia de Camponês/a a Camponês/a no Ceará: Um instrumento para descolonizar o território e (re)valorizar o conhecimento camponês
(2021-12-01)
In this article we address the use of an inventory or mapping of agroecological practices, which is part of the Peasant to Peasant methodology (PtP) for promoting the territorialization of peasant agroecology, as a method ...