Team member Dr Stephanie Domptail is a keynote speaker at the Virtual International Conference on Agricultural Transformation in the ECOWAS sub-region

27 October 2020 - Dr Domptail proposes  "Agroecology as an Ontology to Guide Agricultural and Food Systems" at the AEC conference hosted by the University of Nigeria Nsukka.

Current agriculture and food systems worldwide are facing major sustainability challenges, which jeopardize the ability of future generations to live a good life. The IPES 2016 report on food systems calls for a shift from low input traditional and industrial agricultural systems to diversified agroecological systems. Dr Domptail claims that this shift requires more than a change in practice. Rather it implies a re-conceptualization of agricultural and food systems and their evaluation. The talk discusses those facets of agricultural and food systems which can gain visibility though a reading of agroecology from the political ecology and feminist economics perspective. For instance, the analysis of the worldview of agroecological farmers in Germany reveals the role of reproductive and egalitarian principles and values in designing the farming systems and of community-supported agricultural schemes. She then reflects on what it implies for food security that agroecological systems nurture their reproductive capacity. Finally, the rise of agroecology raises questions about the values that shape agricultural and food systems and engenders a “new” target: the reproduction capacity of our societies.

Further Information:
https://aec2020conference.unn.edu.ng

Contact:
Stephanie Domptail