Eco-agri-food systems: today's realities and tomorrow's challenges

Provides an overview of the diversity of agriculture and food systems, each with different contributions to global food security, impacts on the natural resource base and ways of working through food system supply chains. We describe “eco-agri-food systems” and further identify their many manifestations through a review of typologies. We identify challenges ahead with existing systems due to prevailing economic and political pressures resulting in patterns of invisible flows and impacts across global food systems. We describe pathways to ensure sustainability by securing the benefits from working with, rather than against, natural systems and ecosystem processes and the challenges for farmers, communities and societies to reorient food value chains and build resilience in eco-agri-food systems Fil: Pengue, Walter Alberto. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina Fil: Gemmill Herren, Barbara. World Agroforestry Centre; Kenia Fil: Balázs, Bálint. Environmental Social Science Research Group; Hungría Fil: Ortega, Enrique. Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Brasil Fil: Acevedo, Francisca. National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity,; México Fil: Diaz, Daniel N,. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria; Argentina Fil: Díaz de Astarloa, Diego. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento; Argentina Fil: Fernandez, Rosa. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria; Argentina Fil: Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigaciones En Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural. - Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro. Instituto de Investigaciones En Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural; Argentina Fil: Giampietro, Mario. Universidad de Barcelona; España Fil: Goldberg, Andrea. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria; Argentina Fil: Khosla, Ashok. Development Alternatives; India Fil: Westhoek, Henk. PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. Water, Agriculture and Food; Países Bajos