Bounphanousay, herself a farmer, set up the first national gene bank and says she is encouraging villages to set up their own seed banks, and advising them to cut back on pesticides and adopt more agroecological practices to adapt to the erratic weather.
The most important social factors are the social learning processes to support agroecological practices, and the configuration of economic incentives to reward farmers for undertaking the transition to conservation biological control.
Moreover, agroecological practices (basically, farming like a diversified ecosystem) render a higher resistance to extreme climate events which translate into lower vulnerability and higher long-term farm sustainability.
6. Groundswell International launched a program in Burkina Faso to improve production, food security, and gender equity for 29,500 families by helping scale up agroecological practices.
Labor is a key determinant of the acceptability of agroecological practices to farmers.
As underlined by Tripp (2008), agroecological practices are not necessarily more labor intensive than conventional ones.
The high on-farm biodiversity associated with smallholder agroecological practices has been empirically tied to greater stability in income and recovery from environmental disaster (i.e., resilience), greater food security, and generally positive effects for associated biodiversity.
Integration of energy crops into intensive and industrialised production systems may facilitate transformation towards agroecological cropping practices [94] and support sustainable intensification [50].
To inform the design of effective environmental policies, we interviewed 60 typical dairy family farmers utilizing pasture-based agroecological grazing practices to assess their perceptions and knowledge of the pre-2012 Forest Code, its impacts and their willingness to comply.
Systems-based projects that included both agroecological farming practices (L3) and support for socioeconomic sustainability (L4) were particularly poorly funded (4%), as were L3 projects that included complex rotations (3%), spatially diversified farms (3%), rotational or regenerative grazing (1%), integrated crop-livestock systems (1%), or agroforestry (<1%).
