This declaration on the role of agroecology on the future of agriculture and the food system calls for the scaling up and scaling out of agroecology, as a countermovement based on food sovereignty, for the transformative reform of our food systems. […]
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This report shows the dramatic impacts of the global food system being rapidly monopolised by ever-fewer, ever-larger corporations. It also tracks agroecology initiatives around the world and gives examples of resistance to big agrifood. […] The Peasant Food Web feeds 70% of the world, including the most hungry, using only 25% of global agricultural resources. On the other hand, the Industrial Food Chain, which uses 75% of agricultural resources, feeds less than 30% of the global population. […] Chemicals, especially pesticides, are driving the Earth’s current sixth mass extinction. Integrated pest management practices that reduce the use of chemicals in agriculture and the decoupling of the agrichemical and seed industries are therefore needed. […] This paper argues that benefits to people and the planet can only be realised if the dynamic management of agricultural biodiversity within productive agroecosystems, and the resultant food provision, is developed within the framework of food sovereignty. […] A groundbreaking study shows that soils on organic farms store away appreciably larger amounts of carbon and for longer periods than conventional farm soils by building soil organic matter more effectively. […] The Global Science, Technology and Innovation Conference (G-STIC) 2017 was held recently in Brussels. The thematic session on ‘Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems’ called for a paradigm shift in agriculture towards agroecology. […] Dominant agri-food firms have become too big to feed humanity sustainably, too big to operate on equitable terms with other food system actors, and too big to drive the types of innovation we need. […] Industrial food and farming systems are making people sick in a variety of ways, and are generating staggering human and environmental costs. […] A UN report on Nutrition and Food Systems analyzes how food systems influence people’s dietary patterns and nutritional outcomes, as well as provides clear policy recommendations to shape food systems to protect the right to adequate food for all. […] |
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