Luis L. Vázquez

• PhD
• Research Associate at Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Agroecológicas (CELIA)

La fitoterapia se ubica entre las principales aplicaciones de la medicina natural tradicional. Diversas plantas son cultivadas en los huertos agroecológicos familiares y comunitarios, cuya utilización por la población para el tratamiento de síntomas y enfermedades es una práctica común. La autogestión familiar y comunitaria de plantas medicinales,...

Diversos documentos evidencian que el diseño y manejo de los agroecosistemas, según los principios de la agroecología y las funciones de la biodiversidad, facilita la transición hacia la alimentación sostenible. Experiencias en la participación de proyectos asesorados y facilitados en sistemas de agricultura familiar, permitieron considerar que los...

Various documents show that the design and management of agroecosystems, according to the principles of agroecology and the functions of biodiversity, facilitates the transition to sustainable food. Experiences in the participation of projects advised and facilitated in family farming systems allowed us to consider that humans, who for many year...

There is a need to transit towards sustainability in the production and use of bio products. To contribute to this, the agroecological transition is addressed in the development of microbiological products. It focuses on the importance of the decentralization of bio products towards local food systems. It is argued that the sustainable development...

Phytotherapy is among the main applications of traditional natural medicine. Various plants are grown in agroecological family and community gardens, whose use by the peoples for the treatment of symptoms and diseases is a common practice. Family and community self-management of medicinal plants, integrated into primary care services, contributes t...

The integration of bioproducts during the agroecological transition towards sustainable production should not be carried out as a single substitution of chemical inputs for biological ones. Bioproducts made up of microorganisms, whether for the nutrition, growth or health of crops, need the cultivation system to be an appropriate habitat for the fu...

Biosafety is addressed from different socioeconomic sectors. The agroecological transition towards sustainable food requires holistic self-management of biosecurity, considering primary and post-production of food, complementary services and the population's attitude towards food. Agroecological self-regulation and participatory self-management of...

To facilitate various ecosystem services, the agroecological transition for the construction of sustainable food systems requires the mainstreaming of biodiversity in territorial planning or bio-planning. The facilitation of functional interactions of biodiversity in and between Natural Ecosystems (NE), Agroecosystems (AE) and Urban Ecosystems (UE)...

Functional biodiversity is a determining factor in the agroecological transformation towards sustainable food systems. The agroecological design and management of productive, associated and auxiliary biodiversity accumulates agroecological self-regulation capacities from the primary production process to food ingestion.

With the rise of Agroecology, a dynamic of participatory research is occurring that influences the reconfiguration of food attributes. The route of Agroecology at the scale of the local food system converges on high security and sovereignty in food management, which influences personal and social perception regarding sustainable food.

The conservation of biodiversity and the generation of ecosystem services constitute strategies that has been promoted and executed by the institutions that manage ecological systems, which are also being assumed by the governance of socioeconomic systems. The design and appropriate integration of Auxiliary Vegetation Structures (AVS), as semi-natu...

Regulations and surveillance of health risks are addressed by different socio-economic sectors. The governance of biosecurity during the agroecological transition towards sustainable food has as its scope primary food production, complementary services, post-production of food and feeding by the population. Agroecological self-regulation, self-...

Realizar una mirada reflexiva en torno a las estrategias y prácticas implementadas por el proyecto CAPROCA para capitalizar la experiencia vivida, ha sido una de las acciones materializadas en su último año; aguzando el ojo en relación a dos ejes claves para la resiliencia de los sistemas agroproductivos: la transformación agroecológica y la equida...

The transition towards a decentralized and diversified agriculture is analyzed, as a response to the economic crisis unleashed in Cuba since the 90s, with greater prominence by the peasant family farming and urban agriculture movements. It is evident that agroecology has become popular in human settlements, facilitating the participation of the pop...

El Plan Maestro esta estructurado de forma tal que contribuyera a entender la transición agroecológica, a la vez que se determinaba el estado de la sostenibilidad en la finca, como base para identificar las necesidades de mejoras o ajustes técnicos, de gestión y posibles inversiones.

Biotechnology has the potential to play a significant role in developing more productive and nutritious crops. However, at the same time, it is essential to ensure that these technologies are developed in a responsible manner and that their benefits are distributed equitably across communities and regions. Biotechnology has the potential to play a...

Knowledge management and innovation appear as capitals to facilitate agroecology. The objective of this article is to contribute to the reflection on the emergence of agroecological knowledge. Experiences (2016-2022) on training and technology transfer in 14 municipalities of Cuba are analyzed to determine the sustainability of the action. The resu...

En un folleto corto y sencillo, especialmente elaborado para agricultores, se ofrecen recomendaciones de diseños y manejos agroecológicos de sistemas de cultivo y de ganadería, que contribuyen a mejorar la capacidad de resiliencia de fincas campesinas a sequias y ciclones tropicales en areas degradadas por la ganaderia convencional.

The original human populations lived in communities, where they coexisted in a feeding system integrated into the natural habitat. With social development, they were regrouped into urban (towns and cities), periurban and rural socioecosystems. These characteristics have contributed to the fact that today's society is made up of population conglomer...

RESUMEN Ante la crisis económica de los años noventa, que redujo más del 80% de disponibilidad de plaguicidas y otros insumos, se inició la diversificación y reconversión agroecológica de los sistemas de producción de alimentos. En este contexto, se adoptó el Manejo Agroecológico de Plagas (MAP), proceso que se sistematiza en el presente artículo....

Vazquez LL. Facilitation of augmentative and conservation biological control during the agroecological transition of agricultural systems. J Mic Bio Rep. 2022;5(5):53-57. ABSTRACT The sustainability of biological control in agriculture requires improving the characteristics of agroecosystems as an appropriate habitat for these organisms, whether th...

En un intento de la Global Alliance for the Future of Food (https:// futureoffood.org) de elevar los enfoques agroecológicos en la agenda de los procesos globales de definición de políticas agrarias, se pidió a varios grupos a través del mundo, entre ellos CELIA (www.celia.agroeco.org), articular claramente el cuerpo de evidencia que respalda la vi...

Resumen En Cuba la utilización del control biológico (CB) en la producción agrícola y pecuaria empezó à principios del siglo pasado y se generalizó desde los años cincuenta. El presente artículo tiene por objetivo entender y caracterizar la adopción generalizada del CB. El CB, tal como se conoce actualmente en Cuba, es el resultado de un sistema de...

Objetivo : Evaluar la resiliencia de sistemas de producción expuestos al huracán Irma en territorios de Cuba. Materiales y Métodos: Se determinó el índice general de resiliencia a ciclones tropicales (IGRct), que se contrastó con el coeficiente de diseño y manejo agroecológico (CdmA). Ambos se complementaron con la valoración de la sensibilidad de...

Latin American agroecology proposes a transformation of conventional agri-food systems. It is driven by social movements that have succeeded in forming coalitions that have promoted its integration into public policies. These policies involve a range of instruments that are often embedded in programs that also support organic agriculture and sustai...

To mitigate the movement of non-native organisms with trade, phytosanitary systems have been implemented within and between countries. In some countries such as Cuba, little is known about the within-state plant health system. To facilitate the development of future trade partnership between Cuba and the United States, agencies need to understand t...

Se sistematizan experiencias del proyecto Prosam sobre gestión ambiental sostenible en 14 tipos de iniciativas que benefician agricultores. Se abordaron riesgos por degradación de recursos naturales, inocuidad, bioseguridad y salud ocupacional.

La presente es una herramienta generada por el proyecto Prosam, que se realiza en cinco municipios de la región occidental de Cuba. Está destinada a actores con responsabilidades en la gestión del cambio climático a nivel municipal. Se basa en en enfoque de resiliencia socioecologica y los principios de la Agroecologia.

This book contains 32 chapters focusing on the biological control of many invasive pests, diseases and weeds and ensuring a healthy and sustainable food supply in various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The rich history of biological control in the region is documented and steps for the future success of the biological control of inva...

There is scientific evidence on the impact of climate changes in the agriculture, especially on how these changes affect the phenology, distribution, diversity, and composition of the species in plant, bird, mammal, and insect communities in ecosystems. Regarding the biological control of pests, in general, the temperature increase is expected to r...

In the transition to the development of sustainable agriculture on agroecological bases, the quality of agroecosystems is essential to increase positive interactions of biodiversity that contribute to pest regulation. This chapter provides the bases to redesign agricultural production systems with higher-quality habitat for natural enemies of harmf...

The dispersion capacity of natural enemies, either as biological control agents released or applied into crops or as natural enemies that inhabit the agroecosystem, is of great importance for the sustainability of pest management. It may happen/occur in three different ways: biotic, abiotic, and anthropogenic, or combinations of these. However, the...

Numerous insects inhabit the vegetables crops and their control is necessary. The biological control plays an important role in the management of phytophagous insects these environment using natural enemies in the augmentative (ABC) or conservative biological control (CBC). This chapter provides data on the status of ABC in Latina America and also...

The use of entomopathogenic biopesticides, either as spore suspensions or formulated solid products, can have several collateral effects in agroecosystems. Fungal entomopathogens are typically applied as inundative sprays and are expected to result in short-term pest control, not only against specific pests, but also against species that occupy the...

Latin America and the Caribbean are regions especially interesting to analyse the emergence and development of alternative food and production models with the aim of addressing environmental, social, economic and public health issues. Since the 1960s, this wider region has been threatened by the excesses of the conventional agriculture based on the...

Se ofrece una breve panorámica sobre la necesidad de transitar hacia la agricultura sostenible en base a la agroecología. Se ofrecen algunos elementos de la sostenibilidad y su relación con la resiliencia ante el cambio climático y la soberanía de los territorios agrícolas.

With the objective of demonstrating that agricultural production systems in agroecological transition are showing greater resilience to droughts, this document was prepared, where a conceptual and methodological framework based on resistance-absorption functions (RA) is valued, recovery (RC) and transformability (TR), based on agroecological indica...

The book have the memorias of the workshop relized in orden to sistematice the experiences of technician and farmers about their resilience practica to climatic change in some municipaalities of Cuba

Cuba ha recibido, hoy 17 de enero de 2019, un reconocimiento internacional al sistema de Manejo Agroecológico de Plagas (MAP), desarrollado por el Instituto de Investigaciones de Sanidad Vegetal (INISAV), de conjunto con la red de laboratorios y estaciones del servicio de Sanidad Vegetal y generalizado por agricultores del sector campesino, de la a...

This book aims to address the importance of natural enemies and functional diversity for biological control in Neotropical agroecosystems. Several aspects related to the conservation of natural enemies, such as vegetation design and climate change, are discussed in Part 1 and the bioecology of several insects groups used in biological control in La...

Resumen Los libros Transformando el campo cubano y Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance, narraron el inicio de la agricultura sostenible cubana, mostraron lo logrado de ejemplo mundial, pero hoy informamos los avances al pasar de agricultura de sustitución de insumos a agroecología. Este libro, recoge aspectos de agricultura urbana y suburbana, p...

E n América Latina y el Caribe, el modelo agropecuario convencional caracterizado por el uso intensivo de insu-mos sintéticos, el trabajo asalariado o subcontratado, y la promoción de exportaciones ha sido durante mucho tiempo el único objeto de las políticas públicas. Este modelo ha sido cuestionado por los movimientos sociales: la agricultura con...

L’étude réalisée par les partenaires du DP PP-AL au Brésil présente la trajectoire des politiques publiques en faveur de l’agroécologie à partir d’une analyse historique longitudinale de l’action des mouvements sociaux et des réponses des gouvernements au niveau fédéral. Depuis 2012, le gouvernement fédéral du Brésil a établi une Politique Nationa...

Latin American agroecology proposes a transformation of conventional agri-food systems. It is driven by social movements that have succeeded in forming coalitions that have promoted its integration into public policies. These policies involve a range of instruments that are often embedded in programmes that also support organic agriculture and sust...

The paper presents a brief synthesis and the main results of a transversal studies about public policies supporting organic agriculture and agroecology in Latin American. Organic agriculture propose to substitute chemical industrial inputs by natural or organic inputs, while agroecology considers as a priority, the transformation of agri-food syste...

Formation process realized about redesign of cultivation systems in order to increase the pest autorregutalion capacity. Participated organic farmers in the Herault region, Montpellier, France.

Este libro presenta los resultados de un estudio conducido por la Red Politicas Publicas y Desarrollo Territorial en America Latina (Red PP-AL) sobre las politicas publicas a favor d ela agroecologia en America Latina y el Caribe.

The paper presents the results of a study about public policies in favor of agro ecology in Latin America and the Caribbean. The objective was to analyze the policies or tools that influence the adoption of agro-ecological practices and identify their main effects. The method involved the application of a common analysis guide in 8 countries based...

VIII Seminario Científico Internacional de Sanidad Vegetal

Resumen El control biológico es tradicional en Cuba y su integración al manejo de plagas ocurrió duran-te los años ochenta, con mayor auge desde principios de los noventa, favorecido por la suspen-sión del suministro externo de plaguicidas, tecnologías y combustibles para su aplicación, entre otros factores relacionados con el período especial de l...

The mission of INISAV is to contribute to the reduction of risks and losses by pests without affecting the environment on a sustainable basis. Its management is based on a science model linked with environment and characterized by 4 phases: the planning of research’s, their implementation, validation and adoption in the agriculture practice. Three...

Un proceso participativo para generar indicadores de resiliencia de sistemas de producción agropecuaria a sequías. Se determinó la capacidad de resiliencia de 20 de fincas.

Modern agroecosystems require systemic change, but new redesigned farming systems will not emerge from simply implementing a set of practices (rotations, composting, cover cropping, etc.) but rather from the application of already well defined agroecological principles. These principles can be applied using various practices and strategies, each ha...

Resumen Debido a la importancia actual de los sistemas de cultivos complejos (SCC) durante el proceso de reconversión agroecológica de fincas suburbanas, se estudiaron 24 diseños realizados por agricultores de fincas suburbanas en diferentes territorios agrícolas de la región occidental, central y oriental de Cuba, con el propósito de avaluar sus f...

Organismos nocivos de importancia en diferentes tipos de sistemas de producción en la matriz agrícola urbana, periurbana y suburbana de la provincia de La Habana Harmful organisms of importance in differents types of production systems in the urban, periurban and suburban agricole matrix of the Havana province Resumen Debido a los cambios en la mat...

RESUMEN La fauna edáfica es considerada como un indicador del manejo de los sistemas de producción agrícola. El objetivo de esta investigación fue evaluar la relación entre el diseño y manejo de tres sistemas de cultivos y la diversidad de grupos funcionales de la fauna edáfica. El estudio se realizó en la Unidad Básica de Producción Cooperativa (U...

Más allá de intentar una breve caracterización sobre las funciones de la biodiversidad en la agricultura urbana, el presente artículo trata de acercarse a la valorización que la agricultura familiar ha dado a la biota que habita y se maneja en las ciudades y pueblos, con énfasis en su importancia ecosocial, todo lo cual es parte de los resultados d...

de diagnóstico, aprendizaje e innovación para el diseño y manejo agroecológico de la biodiversidad en sistemas de producción agropecuaria. Introducción En los últimos años se ha documentado ampliamente la necesidad de prestar mayor atención a los efectos de la diversidad sobre la estabilidad (Landis et al., 2000) y la ocurrencia de organismos nociv...

The populations of the coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) are related with the phonological stages of the cultivation and the climate, among other factors; four types of displacement of mature females exist: (1) among the plants during the fructification stage and harvests; (2) of the fruits in the plant to the fruits in the soil at the end o...