Strategic Research Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Strategic Research Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Agroecology and Food Security

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Associate Professor Shahid Beheshti University and Invited Scholar of I.R. Academy of Sciences
Abstract
It is now globally recognized that sustainable food security is not achievable by production-oriented paradigms which result in resource and agroecosystem damage, but it is attainable by applying agroecological approach which aims at sustainability and productivity as well as resource conservation and environmental health. Many researchers and policy-makers strongly believe that agroecology is a win-win solution relying on minimization of off-farm input consumption and maximization of on-farm input and practice reliance. Food safety improves agroecosystem resilience, especially in harsh environments, like arid and semi-arid regions where climate change aggravates environmental stresses including drought, salinity and heat. Iran has to follow knowledge-based, environmental-friendly, economic-viable and carrying capacity-based agroecology to attain sustainable food security.
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