Agroecology and the social sciences: A half-century systematic review

Ryan E. Galt, Natalia Pinzón, Nicholas Ian Robinson and Marcela Beatriz Baukloh Coronil

Agricultural Systems, 2024, vol. 216, issue C

Abstract: Publications in agroecology have been growing rapidly in recent decades. With roots in the biophysical sciences, social sciences, and peasant movements, agroecology is a transdisciplinary field bringing together different ways of knowing. Agroecological research has two main foci: a biophysical focus which operationalizes agroecology as the ecological study of agricultural production systems, and a socio-ecological focus that emphasizes agriculture as a coupled socio-ecological system, the importance of food systems and food security at the household and community level, and a normative dimension, focusing on social (in)justice and power inequalities.

Keywords: Interdisciplinary research; Transdisciplinarity; Systematic literature review; Bibliometrics; Agroecology engaged with social science (AESS); Agroecology not engaged with social science (ANESS) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2024.103881

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