Agroecology: A Growing Field
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Two years ago when we inaugurated the new name of the journal, we highlighted agroecology with a special issue that defined the field as having a transdisciplinary, participatory, and action-orient...
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The objects under design can be located at various levels of organisation, and the paper distinguishes six main categories: material artefacts, cropping techniques, cropping systems, farming systems, territories, and food systems.
“The objects under design can be located at various levels of organisation (Gliessman 2015; Prost etal. 2017). We distinguish here six main categories:”
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- Authors
- Gliessman, S.
- Corresponding author
- Gliessman, Steve
- Venue
- Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2014-11-17
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-2
- ISSN
- 2168-3565 (ISSN-L)
- 2168-3573
- OpenAlex
- W2080135582
- Cited by
- 39
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 2
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant and soil sciences
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Rural Development and Agriculture
- Keywords
- agroecology, transdisciplinary research, participatory research, action research
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