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Title Agroecology : a transdisciplinary, participatory and action-oriented approach / edited by V. Ernesto Méndez, Christopher M. Bacon, Roseann Cohen, Stephen R. Gliessman
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages)
Series Advances in agroecology
Advances in agroecology.
Contents Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction : Agroecology as a Transdisciplinary, Participatory, and Action-oriented Approach; Chapter 2: Agroecology : Roots of Resistance to Industrialized Food Systems; Chapter 3: Transformative Agroecology : Foundations in Agricultural Practice, Agrarian Social Thought, and Sociological Theory; Chapter 4: Political Agroecology : An Essential Tool to Promote Agrarian Sustainability; Chapter 5: Learning Agroecology through Involvement and Reflection
Chapter 6: Complexity in Tradition and Science : Intersecting Theoretical Frameworks in Agroecological ResearchChapter 7: Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and the New Green Revolution; Chapter 8: The Intercultural Origin of Agroecology : Contributions from Mexico; Chapter 9: Participatory Action Research for an Agroecological Transition in Spain : Building Local Organic Food Networks; Chapter 10: Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and Urban Agriculture in the United States; Chapter 11: On the Ground : Putting Agroecology to Work through Applied Research and Extension in Vermont
Chapter 12: Agroecology as a Food Security and Sovereignty Strategy in Coffee-Growing Communities : Opportunities and Challenges in San Ramon, Nicaragua Chapter 13: The Mesoamerican Agroenvironmental Program : Critical Lessons Learned from an Integrated Approach to Achieve Sustainable Land Management; Chapter 14: Analysis of Tropical Homegardens through an Agroecology and Anthropological Ecology Perspective; Back Cover
Summary Agroecology: A Transdisciplinary, Participatory and Action-oriented Approach is the first book to focus on agroecology as a transdisciplinary, participatory, and action-oriented process. Using a combined theoretical and practical approach, this collection of work from pioneers in the subject along with the latest generation of acknowledged leaders engages social actors on different geo-political scales to transform the global agrifood system. The book is divided into two sections, with the first providing conceptual bases and the second presenting case studies. It describes concepts and applications of transdisciplinary research and participatory action research (PAR). Transdisciplinary research integrates different academic disciplines as well as diverse forms of knowledge, including experiential, cultural, and spiritual. Participatory action research presents a way of engaging all relevant actors in an effort to create an equitable process of research, reflection, and activity to make desired changes. Six case studies show how practitioners have grappled with applying this integration in agroecological work within different geographic and socio-ecological contexts. An explicit and critical discussion of diverse perspectives in the growing field of agroecology, this book covers the conceptual and empirical material of an agroecological approach that aspires to be more transdisciplinary, participatory, and action-oriented. In addition to illustrating systems of agroecology that will improve food systems around the world, it lays the groundwork for further innovations to create better sustainability for all people, ecologies, and landscapes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Agricultural ecology.
Sustainable agriculture.
Agricultural systems.
sustainable agriculture (discipline)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General.
Agricultural ecology
Agricultural systems
Sustainable agriculture
Form Electronic book
Author Méndez, V. Ernesto, editor.
Bacon, Christopher M., editor.
Cohen, Roseann, editor
Gliessman, Stephen R., editor.
ISBN 9781482241778
1482241773
9780429183737
0429183739