Fecha de publicación: 04/04/2024 Fuente: ISHS (International Society for Horticultural Science) Post date: Thursday 4 April 2024
Author:
ISHS Secretariat

5th episode in the ISHS Horticulture Debate series called "Hort Forum"
Agroecology for sustainable horticulture: It's time to address it
Speaker: Georgina Catacora-Vargas , Universidad Católica Boliviana, Tiahuanacu (Bolivia)

Organizers: Ted DeJong, UC Davis (USA), George Manganaris, Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus)
Moderators: Maria Claudia Dussi, Nat'l University of Comahue (Argentina), Pierre-Eric Lauri, INRAE (France)
Panelists: Adolfo Rosati, CREA (Italy), Tim Bowles, University of California Berkeley (USA), Alexander Wezel, ISARA (France) and Paulo F. Petersen, AS-PTA (Brazil)

Thursday, April 18, 2024, Hours: 17:00 – 19:00 Central European Time (CET)
Participating is free of charge - registration is required (see registration link down the description below)
As a concept, agroecology was proposed over a century ago as a framework for more sustainable farming systems. It is promoted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, 2018) "Scaling up Agroecology to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals" (SDGs). Agroecology seeks to reduce our dependency on fossil fuel (petrol, gas), to reduce pollution of the environment and to mitigate the effects of climate change. It is based on principles that collectively aim to increase the autonomy and the resilience of the agroecosystem, among them, enhancing beneficial interactions and synergisms within agroecosystems, recycling biomass, enhancing soil biotic activity, minimizing nutrient losses, increasing energy efficiency, increasing species and within-species diversity. Beyond these aspects, agroecology also changes our disciplinary approaches of horticulture and promotes trans disciplinary relationships, combining academic and non-academic knowledge, to be able to face the challenge of improving well-being of growers and health of consumers under global change. Agroecology proposes a new model for agriculture and food production that leads to distributive justice, restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems, and food sovereignty. In this Hort Forum, we therefore seek to clarify the meaning of agroecology to be able to face the current and future challenges of horticulture. Among the standpoints that we want to address are innovations in the agroecology agrifood chains, perspectives in different world regions, future of research on agroecology, role of digitalization, as well as other aspects.

For more details and to watch the on-demand recording go to: https://www.ishs.org/hortforum

Tags: HortForumagroecologysustainable horticultureCategories: General InterestHortForum