Agroecological transitions: multiple scales, levels and challenges

Sustainable food production through the principles of agroecology implies several simultaneous transitions at different scales, levels and dimensions, of a social, biological, economic, cultural, institutional, political nature. To describe these transitions the use of different conceptual framework...

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Autor principal: Tittonell, Pablo
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias-UNCuyo 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/RFCA/article/view/2448
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topic Innovación
Sistemas socio-ecológicos
Modelo de estados y transiciones
Régimen socio-técnico
Manejo agroecológico
Indicadores
Innovation
Socio-ecological systems
State and transition model
Socio-technical regime
Agroecological management; Indicators
spellingShingle Innovación
Sistemas socio-ecológicos
Modelo de estados y transiciones
Régimen socio-técnico
Manejo agroecológico
Indicadores
Innovation
Socio-ecological systems
State and transition model
Socio-technical regime
Agroecological management; Indicators
Tittonell, Pablo
Agroecological transitions: multiple scales, levels and challenges
topic_facet Innovación
Sistemas socio-ecológicos
Modelo de estados y transiciones
Régimen socio-técnico
Manejo agroecológico
Indicadores
Innovation
Socio-ecological systems
State and transition model
Socio-technical regime
Agroecological management; Indicators
author Tittonell, Pablo
author_facet Tittonell, Pablo
author_sort Tittonell, Pablo
title Agroecological transitions: multiple scales, levels and challenges
title_short Agroecological transitions: multiple scales, levels and challenges
title_full Agroecological transitions: multiple scales, levels and challenges
title_fullStr Agroecological transitions: multiple scales, levels and challenges
title_full_unstemmed Agroecological transitions: multiple scales, levels and challenges
title_sort agroecological transitions: multiple scales, levels and challenges
description Sustainable food production through the principles of agroecology implies several simultaneous transitions at different scales, levels and dimensions, of a social, biological, economic, cultural, institutional, political nature. To describe these transitions the use of different conceptual frameworks, derived from ecology, agronomy and the science of innovation, are proposed. The article addresses the agroecological transition as a succession of emerging innovations and analyses the stages of the technical-institutional transition and its drivers. It is also proposed to conceptualize the transition as a restoration of the functions and resilience of the socio-ecosystem. Finally, we explore with a couple of examples what the transition implies in terms of changes in agricultural management practices. The agroecological transition can involve the optimization of management practices to increase productive efficiency, an inputs substitution, or the redesign of the system. The examples analyzed show that the transition does not always start from highly industrialized and/ or degraded systems. Many producers who do not consider themselves agroecological implement however many agroecological-based practices. It is concluded that the transit to agroecology implies a technical-productive transition at the subsystems of the farm, a socio-ecological transition at the level of the rural family, its community and its landscape, and a political-institutional transition to level of territories, regions and countries. Understanding the transition as an interdependence between scales and dimensions, allows to reconcile the looks of the different ´schools´ of agroecology, from the most ecological to the most socio-political.
publisher Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias-UNCuyo
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