agroecología: innovaciones para sistemas agrícolas y alimentarios sustentables

The executive summary advocates for agroecology as a holistic alternative to the dominant industrial agri-food model, which it links to environmental degradation and climate change. It proposes a 13-criteria framework to evaluate the sustainability of innovations, emphasizing social justice, gender equality, and environmental health. The text contrasts agroecology with 'false solutions' like climate-smart agriculture and provides a detailed set of policy recommendations for governments to support small-scale producers, protect biodiversity, and transition away from industrial agrofuels.

• The current dominant industrial agri-food model, characterized by high inputs, is identified as a primary driver of environmental health decline, human health issues, and threats to the human right to adequate food and nutrition.
• The document proposes a comprehensive framework of 13 interconnected evaluation criteria to determine if an innovation is sustainable. These criteria are divided into social, economic, and institutional dimensions (including participatory governance and gender justice), environmental dimensions (including climate and energy justice), and the implementation process (including affordability and usability).
• Agroecology is presented as a science, practice, and social movement that integrates ecological dimensions with ancestral and customary knowledge of indigenous peoples and small-scale producers. It is described as technically viable and capable of providing stable yields, restoring ecosystems, and building resilience against climate change and environmental disasters.
• The text warns against 'false solutions' such as 'climate-smart agriculture' and 'sustainable intensification,' arguing that these approaches risk co-opting the term 'agroecology' to serve industrial interests and maintain a 'continuist' path that does not guarantee sustainability.
• Food sovereignty is established as a central goal, defined as the right of peoples and states to define their own food, agricultural, livestock, and fishing systems and policies.
• The document provides specific policy recommendations to scale up agroecology, including the need for comprehensive land reforms, the protection of peasant seed systems against privatization, the redirection of subsidies away from industrial agrofuels, and the implementation of public procurement policies that favor local agroecological production.

APA

Ortega-Espès, D. (2018). agroecología: innovaciones para sistemas agrícolas y alimentarios sustentables. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Agroecologia-innovacion-Resumen-ES.pdf

Chicago

Ortega-Espès, Delphine. agroecología: innovaciones para sistemas agrícolas y alimentarios sustentables. Friends of the Earth International, 2018. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Agroecologia-innovacion-Resumen-ES.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{ortegaesps2018agroecologa, author = {Ortega-Espès, Delphine}, title = {{agroecología: innovaciones para sistemas agrícolas y alimentarios sustentables}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2018}, month = nov, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Agroecologia-innovacion-Resumen-ES.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }