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Agroecological transitions: A systematic review of research approaches and prospects for participatory action methods

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Title Agroecological transitions: A systematic review of research approaches and prospects for participatory action methods
 
Creator Sachet, Erwan
Mertz, Ole
Le Coq, Jean-François
Cruz-Garcia, Gisella S.
Francesconi, Wendy
Bonin, Muriel
Quintero, Marcela
 
Subject participatory action research
participatory approaches
agroecosystems
literature reviews
investigación práctica participativa
enfoques participativos
agroecosistemas
 
Description 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.
 
Date 2021-10-26
2022-02-15T12:39:45Z
2022-02-15T12:39:45Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Sachet, E.; Mertz, O.; Le Coq, J.-F.; Cruz-Garcia, G.S.; Francesconi, W.; Bonin, M.; Quintero, M. (2021) Agroecological transitions: A systematic review of research approaches and prospects for participatory action methods. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5:709401. 13 p. ISSN: 2571-581X
2571-581X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/118138
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.709401
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 13 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Frontiers Media SA
 
Source Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems