Context

Faced with the environmental and social consequences of the prevailing agrifood model, it is necessary to seek new models that promote environmentally beneficial practices. At the international level, a decisive step has been taken towards the search for innovative alternatives that go deeper into how agroecology faces the challenges of global change and increasingly urbanised societies. In Spain, and in particular in the CM, it is a term with an increasing popularity in the productive sector, but it is still far from being recognized and there is a wide debate about its overlap with ecological agriculture.

Ante las consecuencias ambientales y sociales del modelo agroalimentario imperante es necesario buscar nuevos modelos que promuevan prácticas ambientalmente beneficiosas. A nivel internacional se ha iniciado un paso firme hacia la búsqueda de alternativas innovadoras que profundicen en cómo la agroecología afronta los desafíos del cambio global y las sociedades cada día más urbanizadas. En España y en particular en la CM es un término con cada día más auge en el sector productivo, pero está aún lejos de ser reconocido y existe un amplio debate sobre su solapamiento con la agricultura ecológica.

Additional information

● Increase the scientific knowledge of agroecology to improve production, compile traditional knowledge, systematize economically viable experiences, provide formal training, etc.: creating a repository of knowledge.
● Explore the relationship between organic farming and agroecology and their possible complementarity
● Provide training to technicians and new producers in agroecology
● To improve the association and connection between different actors related to agroecology through annual meetings and dissemination documents.
● Increase the visibility of the sector, through organized visits, annual awards.
● Increase agroecological demand through consumer awareness campaigns.
● To increase the political incidence of agroecology and the sensitization of the citizenship through debate days and closing of the project directed to technicians, decision makers and interested population in general.