The agro-ecological revolution
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Feeding everyone without destroying the planet
Ready for the agro-ecological revolution? The failures of the Green Revolution of the 1960s and the dysfunctions of today’s global food system are clear for all to see: soil depletion, erosion of biodiversity, health problems linked to pesticides, nutritional deficiencies among millions of people, not to mention the indebtedness of farmers, the privatisation of living organisms and the domination of agribusiness giants over seeds and food distribution networks… It’s time to combine agriculture and ecology!
Drawing on his experience as an agricultural teacher and researcher, Alain Olivier guides us through the set of scientific principles and farming practices that make up agroecology. It’s important to focus on proper soil management, recycling plant and animal biomass, and protecting water and ecosystems. Rotations, crop associations and agroforestry should be the norm, while integrating livestock farming in a reasoned way. Since agroecology values the terroir, farmers’ knowledge and the role of women, it is also crucial that those who feed us have access to land and seeds.
In an era of climate change, ecological processes, social justice and food sovereignty must be at the heart of how agro-ecosystems function, as well as the food system in general. Agroecology is a vast social movement seeking to establish more sustainable and fairer practices, and is the ideal way of transforming the relationship between human beings and their food, their land and a nature that is on its last legs.
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