Research strategies to catalyze agroecological transitions in low- and middle-income countries

• DOI: 10.1007/s11625-022-01163-6
• Publication Date: 2022-06-16T03:39:21Z
• Authors: Sarah K. Jones; Nadia Bergamini; Francesca Beggi; Didier Lesueur; Barbara Vinceti; Arwen Bailey; Fabrice A. DeClerck; Natalia Estrada-C...; Carlo Fadda; Etienne M. Hainzelin; Danny Hunter; Chris Kettle; Job Kihara; Abdel Kader Naino...; Mirjam Pulleman; Roseline Remans; Celine Termote; Tobias Fremout; Evert Thomas; Louis Verchot; Marcela Quintero
• Keywords: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_31858; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8081; Economics; F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture; FOS: Political science; Plant Science; 01 natural sciences; Agricultural and Biological Sciences; systèmes alimentaires; Sustainable development; Agroecology; Sustainable food systems; Food system transformation; Transition pathways; Business; Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Political science; politique de développement; Geography; ECOLOGICAL INTENSIFICATION; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_201; Life Sciences; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8227; Food systems; Livelihood Diversification; Sustainability; Archaeology; Science & Technology - Other Topics; General Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Physical geography; méthode de recherche; Summit; 333; 12. Responsible consumption; SUSTAINABILITY; Convention on Biological Diversity; pays en développement; Biology; Transition pathways; Economic growth; Science & Technology; transitional farming; durabilité; PATHWAYS; Food security; 15. Life on land; sustainable agriculture; sistemas alimentarios; Food system transformation; FOS: Biological sciences; BIODIVERSITY; Agroecology; Agroecology and Global Food Systems; AGRICULTURE; INNOVATION; [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]; agroécologie; Agricultural Innovation and Livelihood Diversification; Participatory action research; 630; Context (archaeology); 11. Sustainability; Environmental resource management; politique agricole; 2. Zero hunger; Ecology; agroecología; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1997; FOOD SECURITY; Sustainable agriculture; 1. No poverty; Agriculture; Biodiversity; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_92381; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1070; Agrarian Change; ecology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; agroecology; food systems; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; FOS: Law; agricultura sostenible; SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; Life Science; E10 - Économie et politique agricoles; 0105 earth and related environmental sciences; Comparative Analysis of Organic Agricultural Practices; transformation; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2228; 13. Climate action; Sustainable food systems; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33560; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_bea5db85; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2222; Law; Environmental Sciences

AbstractGovernments are updating national strategies to meet global goals on biodiversity, climate change and food systems proposed in the Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 framework and agreed at the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference (COP26) and Food Systems Summit (UNFSS). This represents a unique and crucial opportunity to integrate and accelerate food system actions to tackle interconnected global challenges. In this context, agroecology is a game-changing approach that can provide the world’s growing population with nutritious, healthy affordable food, ensure fair incomes to farmers and halt and reverse the degradation of the natural environment. Here, we explore agroecological transition pathways in four case studies from low- and middle- income countries and identify catalysts for change. We find that enabling policy and market environments, participatory action research and local socio-technical support each plays a critical role in stimulating transitions towards agroecology. We propose strategies and priorities for research to better support agroecological transitions using these catalysts of change as entry points. Engagement of governments, private sector, civil society, farmers and farm workers in this research agenda is essential.