Agroecology: The Ecology of Food Systems

By C. Francis, G. Lieblein, S. Gliessman, T. A. Breland, N. Creamer, R. Harwood, L. Salomonsson, J. Helenius, D. Rickerl, R. J. Salvador and 6 more. 2003

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks Diversified Farming Systems: An Agroecological, Systems-based Alternative to Modern Industrial Agriculture (2012, background): “More recently this hybrid science has evolved to include the social and economic dimensions of food systems (Francis et al. 2003).”
Agroecology territories: places for sustainable agricultural and food systems and biodiversity conservation (2016, background): “However, this approach does not take into account any social, economic, or food system aspects and the food system scale that are today considered part of agroecology (Dalgaard, Hutchings, and Porter 2003; Francis et al. 2003; Gliessman 2007; Wezel and David 2012; Méndez, Bacon, and Cohen 2013; Weze”
Agroecology and Politics. How To Get Sustainability? About the Necessity for a Political Agroecology (2012, positive): “This has compelled agroecologists to adopt a much broader vision, adopting an approach that focuses on the food system (Francis et al. 2003; González de Molina and Infante 2011), which also necessarily requires politics and collective action.”
Clarifying the socioeconomic dimensions of agroecology: between principles and practices (2016, methodology): “Our approach was based on the sociological approach of food systems that is commonly used in agroecological research (Francis et al. 2003; Warner 2007; Gliessman 2007; Vanloqueren and Baret 2009).”
Limiting livestock production to pasture and by-products in a search for sustainable diets (2016, background): “Similarly to the agroecology concept, it emphasises the principles of efficient use of resources, recirculation of nutrients and development of production systems adapted to unique local conditions (Francis et al., 2003).”
Analyzing the Level of Accessibility of Public Urban Green Spaces to Different Socially Vulnerable Groups of People (2018, neutral): “97-fold increase in the chance of utilizing parks [53].”
Conversion to organic farming: a multidimensional research object at the crossroads of agricultural and social sciences. A review (2011, background): “This is what some authors try to do by defining agro-ecology broadly as an ecology of food systems (Francis et al., 2003), based on the notions of ecosystem (Lowrance et al., 1984) and agroecosystem (Gliessman, 1990), and which can be opposed to a vision of agro-ecology as an ecology applied to…”
Marginal Agricultural Land Low-Input Systems for Biomass Production (2019, background): “economic, social and environmental sustainability [37] for high-quality food and non-food agricultural products [38,55].”
Beyond the agroecological and sustainable agricultural intensification debate: Is blended sustainability the way forward? (2018, background): “attempt to integrate the principles of ecology and agronomy (Francis et al., 2003; Tittonell, 2014).”
Pulses for Sustainability: Breaking Agriculture and Food Sectors Out of Lock-In (2018, background): “Several authors stress the need to consider agriculture and food as closely linked, yet few studies explicitly tackle the joint transition of agriculture and food systems (Francis et al., 2003; Marsden, 2012; Kuokkanen et al., 2016; Meynard et al., 2016).”
A quantitative and qualitative historical analysis of the scientific discipline of agroecology (2009, background): “At present, the definitions of agroecology given by Francis et al. (2003) and Gliessman (2007) go beyond this by leaving the concrete spatial scale and entering the full dimension of the food system.”
Greedy or needy? Land use and climate impacts of food in 2050 under different livestock futures (2017, background): “The concept is compatible with agro-ecological principles of efficient use of local resources (Francis et al., 2003) and contributes to food availability (Godfray et al., 2010).”