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06. How is the content of

“ecological agriculture”
understood?

Since the 1920s, the phrase “ecological promote the diversity and cultural
agriculture” has been mentioned in the values of the system to raise the prices
scientific literature and expressed in of agricultural products to ensure green
technical advances, farming practices, and sustainable growth. With the above
social movements for sustainability approach, ecological agriculture is
and public policies of many countries expressed in 10 essential elements :
2
around the world. However, because it Diversity: Ecological agriculture
only mentions ecological agriculture in emphasizes the variety of agricultural
technical aspects, it is difficult to expand production systems to ensure food safety
due to many other limitations related and nutrition while conserving, protecting
to socio-economic and environment. and enhancing natural resources. The
Up to now, many different views and ecological agriculture production systems
understandings of ecological agriculture are highly diverse such as agroforestry
represent the development of a more systems, agroforestry systems intercropping
comprehensive concept and more with crops for forage, the combination of
attention to extending the principle of cropping - livestock - aquaculture, and
ecological agriculture in agriculture. multi-crop plantation, contributing to a
FAO has synthesized and systematized wide range of production, socio-economic,
the theory of ecological agriculture. nutritional and environmental benefits.
Accordingly, ecological agriculture is
defined as an integrated approach, Knowledge sharing and joint-
focusing on the interaction between innovation: Ecological agriculture focuses
environmental, social and economic on sharing knowledge, experiences and
factors of the food systems through the joint-innovation based on traditional,
application of a set of intelligent and indigenous, practical and local knowledge
environmentally friendly processes and with global scientific knowledge.
technologies; rational use of inputs,
FAO, 2018. The 10 elements of agroecology: Guiding
efficient natural resources, low emission, 2 the transition to sustainable food and agricultural
no adverse impact on human health; systems. https://www.fao.org/3Zi9037en/i9037en.pdf

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