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</font></div><p><span class="mw-headline" /></p><div><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="entry-title single-post-title" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/agroecology-as-innovation.html" class="nc-orange" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Agroecology as Innovation</font></a></h1><div class="single-title-meta" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="sep">Posted on</span> <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/agroecology-as-innovation.html" title="Agroecology as Innovation" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: inherit;">July 18, 2019</a> <span class="sep">by </span><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/author/yves-smith" title="Yves Smith" rel="author" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: inherit;">Yves Smith</a></span></font></div></header><div class="entry-content"><div class="pf-content"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 18px; hyphens: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Timothy A. Wise, a Senior Researcher on the <a href="https://www.smallplanet.org/land-food-rights" target="blank" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: inherit;">Land and Food Rights Program</a> at <a href="https://www.smallplanet.org/" target="blank" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: inherit;">Small Planet Institute</a> and a researcher at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. He is the author of <a href="https://www.smallplanet.org/eating-tomorrow" target="blank" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: inherit;">Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food</a> (New Press, 2019). Originally published at <a href="http://triplecrisis.com/13722-2/" target="blank" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: inherit;">Triple Crisis</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; hyphens: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Recently, the High Level Panel of Experts of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its much-anticipated report on agroecology. The report signals the continuing shift in emphasis in the UN agency’s approach to agricultural development. As outgoing FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva has <a href="https://smallplanet.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8eec5cd5151a8346637209ddf&id=227958d9de&e=5bde67549b" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://smallplanet.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8eec5cd5151a8346637209ddf%26id%3D227958d9de%26e%3D5bde67549b&source=gmail&ust=1563457656589000&usg=AFQjCNGRaibqIir4d-vB76ZYVLgcYXm5ZA" style="text-decoration: inherit;">indicated</a>, “We need to promote a transformative change in the way that we produce and consume food. We need to put forward sustainable food systems that offer healthy and nutritious food, and also preserve the environment.<b> Agroecology can offer several contributions to this process.”</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 18px; hyphens: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The commissioned report, <a href="https://smallplanet.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8eec5cd5151a8346637209ddf&id=51d3275050&e=5bde67549b" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://smallplanet.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8eec5cd5151a8346637209ddf%26id%3D51d3275050%26e%3D5bde67549b&source=gmail&ust=1563457656589000&usg=AFQjCNFB6X9KdV2SANJZBgUr4Y2n7I_J0w" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: inherit;">“Agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition.”</a> Two years in the making, the report makes clear the urgent need for change. “Food systems are at a crossroads. Profound transformation is needed,” the summary begins. It stresses the importance of ecological agriculture, which supports “diversified and resilient production systems, including mixed livestock, fish, cropping, and agroforestry, that preserve and enhance biodiversity, as well as the natural resource base.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 18px; hyphens: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is not surprising, of course, that those with financial interests in the current input-intensive systems are responding to growing calls for agroecology with attacks on its efficacy as a systematic approach that can sustainably feed a growing population. What is surprising is that such responses are so ill-informed about the scientific innovations agroecology offers to small-scale farmers who are being so poorly served by “green revolution” approaches....</font></p></div></div></div><p><span class="mw-headline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></span></p>