The agroecological revolution in Latin America: rescuing nature, ensuring food sovereignty and empowering peasants

By M. Altieri, V. Toledo. 2011

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and the New Green Revolution (2012, background): “Thus, agroecology’s “epistemological, technical and social revolution” is mutually constitutive with social movements and political processes “from below” (Altieri and Toledo 2011, 587).”
Synthesis, part of a Special Feature on A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks Ecosystem Services in Biologically Diversified versus Conventional Farming Systems: Benefits, Externalities, and Trade-Offs (2012, background): “Conclusions varied widely among the de Ponti et al. (2012), Seufert et al. (2012), and Badgley et al. (2007) (Altieri and Toledo 2011).”
The meat of the global food crisis (2013, background): “Indeed, there is is much empirical evidence to support the contention that such farms can indeed ‘feed the world’ while, in the terms of Vı́a Campesina, helping ‘cool the planet’ by reducing emissions and enhancing sequestration capacity (Badgely et al. 2007, Snapp et al. 2010, Altieri and Toledo 20”
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): “…adoption of agroecological principles in many Latin and Central American countries exist through the many cases of campesino-tocampesino training reported, as well as the increasingly global spread of the La Via Campesina movement (Holt-Giménez 2006, Wittman et al. 2010, Altieri and Toledo 2011).”
The Long Green Revolution (2013, background): “Examples from Cuba and Malawi, for instance, fell outside the parameters of the study, thus losing local evidence that agroecological systems might outperform conventional agriculture (Msachi et al. 2009, Altieri and Toledo 2011, Rosset et al. 2011).”
Taking agroecology to scale: the Zero Budget Natural Farming peasant movement in Karnataka, India (2018, background): “…ecological and social benefits (Parmentier 2014; De Schutter 2010; Varghese and Hansen-Kuhn 2013; Rosset and Martínez-Torres 2012; Altieri and Nicholls 2008; Badgley et al. 2007; Pretty, Morison, and Hine 2003; Altieri and Koohafkan 2008; Van der Ploeg 2008; IAASTD 2009; Altieri and Toledo 2011).”
Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis (2012, background): “Agro-ecology and agro-ecological movements are thought by some to be the key vehicles for attaining ideal-type A (Altieri and Toledo 2011; Rosset et al. 2011).”
The Politics of Sustainability and Development (2016, background): “In the same way, many biodiversity-conserving and agro-ecological practices of smallscale farmers have been documented (169).”
Agroecology: Foundations in Agrarian Social Thought and Sociological Theory (2012, background): “Indeed, the adoption of the agroecological paradigm has become so extensive and profound in Latin America, that Altieri and Toledo (2011) have recently called it nothing less than an ‘agroecological revolution.”
Peasant-driven agricultural growth and food sovereignty (2014, background): “This has been abundantly and convincingly documented in the rapidly expanding literature on agroecology (for recent examples see Altieri, Funes-Monzote and Petersen, 2011; Altieri and Toledo, 2011).”
Beyond the agroecological and sustainable agricultural intensification debate: Is blended sustainability the way forward? (2018, background): “Agroecological approaches include several practices aimed at harnessing the potential of agriculture and ecological processes to improve agricultural yields (Altieri & Toledo, 2011; de la Rosa, Anaya-Romero, DiazPereira, Heredia, & Shahbazi, 2009; Fonte et al., 2012; Rolando et al., 2017).”
Explaining the 'hungry farmer paradox': Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua's corn and coffee markets (2014, background): “Mesoamerican coffee smallholders reproduce indigenous cultures (Altieri and Toledo, 2011), manage high levels of biodiversity (Perfecto et al.”