Approaches of Agroecology
- Ecosystem agroecology:
- It is based on hypothesis that the natural system, with its stability and resilience provide the best model to mimic if sustainability is the goal.
- Agronomic agroecology:
- This approach also does not actively involve the social sciences but uses it to understand the processes by which agriculture became unsustainable.
- Ecological political economy:
- It believes that only one radical change in political economy and moral economy of research will reduce the cost of modern agriculture.
- Agro-population ecology:
- Buttel explains it as the application of population ecology to agroecology involves the primacy not only of analyzing agroecosystems from the perspective of the population dynamics of their constituent species, and their relationships to climate and biogeochemistry, but also there is a major emphasis placed on the role of genetics.”
- Holon agroecology:
- Holon agroecology stresses seeing the agricultural endeavor as an unfinished accomplishment that is constantly adjusting itself to its many contexts and their conflicts and incommensurabilities.
- The farm holon represents a kind of “holding together” in order to persist through change, but a holding together that is never fully unified and worked out.
6.Inclusive agroecology:
- In this, natural ecology and agroecology are the major headings under
- Natural ecology is the study of organisms as they interact with and within natural environments.
- Correspondingly, agroecology is the basis for the land-use sciences. Here humans are the primary governing force for organisms within planned and managed, mostly terrestrial, environments.
7.Integrated assessment of multifunctional agricultural systems:
- This approach focuses in the multi-functionality of landscape instead of focusing merely on agricultural enterprises. Agriculture and food system are considered parts of an institutional complex that relates to and integrates with other social institutions.