Agroecological transitions: a systematic review of research approaches and prospects for participatory action methods
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There have been many calls for an agroecological transition to respond to food shocks and crises stemming from conventional food systems. Participatory action research and transformative epistemologies, where communities are research actors rather than objects, have been proposed as a way to enhance this transition. However, despite numerous case studies, there is presently no overview of how participatory approaches contribute to agroecological transitions. The present article therefore aims to understand the effect of applying participatory action research (PAR) in agroecology. We undertook a systematic review of articles reporting methods and results from case studies in agroecological research. On the one hand, our systematic review of 347 articles shows that the agroecological research scope is broad, with all three types—as science, a set of practices and social movement—well-represented in the corpus. However, we can see a clear focus on agroecology “as a set of practices” as the primary type of use of the concept. On the other hand, we found a few case studies (23) with a participatory approach while most studies used extractive research methods. These studies show that understanding the drivers and obstacles for achieving an agroecological transition requires long-term research and trust between researchers and farmers. Such transformative epistemologies open doors to new questions on designing long-term PAR research in agroecology when confronted with a short-term project-based society.
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This process often prioritizes the attainment of long-term sustainability over short-term productivity gains.
“This process often prioritizes the attainment of long-term sustainability over short-term productivity gains (Ong and Liao, 2020;Sachet et al., 2021).”
From Agroecology for sustainable development: evidence on multidimensional performance from a cross-country TAPE assessment in Africa (2025) · cites this paper as Sachet et al., 2021
The Methods section describes agroecology as a path to sustainable development, and the Conclusions emphasize long-term work needed for the transition. Neither passage says that the process prioritizes long-term sustainability over short-term productivity gains; the paper’s short-term contrast concerns project-based research, not productivity. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Sachet, E., Mertz, O., Le Coq, J.-F., Cruz-Garcia, G. S., Francesconi, W., Bonin, M., & Quintero, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- International Center for Tropical Agriculture (KE)
- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Sachet, Erwan
- Venue
- Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2021-10-26
- Volume
- 5
- Pages
- 709401
- ISSN
- 2571-581X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3208495072
- Cited by
- 89
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 5
- FWCI
- 0.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Agritrop (Cirad) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Greater South Information System
- Funders
- Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Rural Development and Agriculture
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Organic Food and Agriculture
- Keywords
- agroecological transition, participatory action research, long-term research
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