‘Proposal of a Principle cum Scale Analytical Framework for Analysing Agroecological Development Projects’

 

12th February 2020

Dr. Diane Kapgen co-wrote ‘Proposal of a Principle cum Scale Analytical Framework for Analysing Agroecological Development Projects’, for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems with Laurence Roudart.

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Abstract

Because agroecology has different meanings, it may be used in an arbitrary and potentially abusive way when deployed by development cooperation actors conceiving “agroecology-based” development projects. To make the appropriation of agroecology more transparent, we first review the recent attempts in academia to clarify the concept and identify two main trends: a principle-based agroecology and a series of different agroecologies. Based on a critical assessment of these attempts, we then propose a new framework to program, implement and analyse agroecological development projects: it distinguishes different agroecologies with their corresponding categories of principles and their scales of intervention. Further, we argue in favour of a specific category of methodological principles.