Agroecological management options for World Agriculture

The goal of this module is to explore agroecological management options for world agriculture. In particular, the contents of the module will focus on definitions on agroecology and current scenarios of the so called perfect storm, including climate, energy and water crises, and potential land management options to adapt to and mitigate climate change while fostering ecological transition in Agriculture and greening the world economy.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Agroecological management options for World Agriculture.

The following text was modified from selected portions of the UN FAO book “Smallholder ecologies” (Scialabba et al., 2014), whose Cesare Pacini is co-Author. The text was updated and adapted for the purpose of the EU Erasmus+ Food4All project.