AGROECOLOGY

The five FAO principles for Sustainable Food and Agriculture are: improving efficiency in the use of resources;conserving, protecting and enhancing natural ecosystems; protecting and improving rural livelihoods, equity and social well-being;enhancing the resilience of people, communities and ecosystems Agroecology is inherently multidisciplinary, including sciences such as agronomy, ecology, environmental science, sociology, economics, history and others. Agroecology uses different sciences to understand elements of ecosystems such as soil properties and plant-insect interactions, as well as using social sciences to understand the effects of farming practices on rural communities, economic constraints to developing new production methods, or cultural factors determining farming practices.it can range from an individual gene to an entire population, or from a single field in a given farm to global systems.