Sentence examples for agroecology from inspiring English sources
noun
The application of ecology to agriculture
A paper submitted to the U.N. General Assembly last December highlighted the benefits of "agroecology" — otherwise known as organic farming.
Colleges and universities reported nearly 1,500 academic programs to the Department of Education in 2010; 355 were added to the list over the previous 10 years as colleges, to stay competitive and current, adopted new disciplines like homeland security and global studies, cyberforensics and agroecology.
Finally, Michael Pollan, Knight professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and author, most recently, of "Cooked," speaks about Miguel Altieri, an agronomist at Berkeley and one of the world's leading proponents of agroecology.
They argue that agroecology — the application of ecological principles to agriculture — offers the possibility of increasing crop yields without resorting to expensive, patented inputs like chemical fertilizers or genetically engineered seeds, which are beyond the means of poor smallholder farmers in Africa or Asia.
Both sides would probably agree that neither technical innovation nor agroecology can work unless governments are fully committed to reducing the number of hungry and chronically malnourished people.
GM crops get about 30,000 news hits on Google, agroecology around 3,000.
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John Reganold is a Regents Professor of Soil Science & Agroecology at the Washington State University.
In April she took a six-month leave from her job and headed to the Center for Agroecology with two other city growers.
For more formal training there is the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
