Mamen Cuéllar-Padilla

University of Cordoba (Spain) | UCO · Department of Social Sciences Philosophy Geography Translation

Objective: analyze the process of public regulation of organic production in Brazil, with a focus on Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) and Social Control Organizations (SCO). Method: The research employed document analysis of reports produced by civil society organizations, content analysis of two webinários on the subject, and conducted 12 int...

Despite the various studies on food governance structured around alternative food systems (AFS), analysis of the essential characteristics of it which facilitate the sustainability of the food system (FS) is still incipient. This study aims to clarify the debate on the role of governance in sustainability of the FS by way of the following two objec...

Participatory guarantee systems (PGSs) have emerged as a response to exclusion and intermediation processes involving third-party certification, which is currently the only guarantee system recognised by the European Union for organic food. Despite their unofficial recognition, PGSs are developing and generating shared frameworks of action. In this...

Participatory action research involving farmers and researchers is crucial to enhance the adoption of farming innovations and ensure the long term sustainability of agroecosystem restoration. However, the factors for successful participatory research for agroecosystem restoration are not always clear and have been rarely evaluated from the perspect...

The advanced state of land degradation worldwide urges the large-scale adoption of sustainable land management (SLM). Social learning is considered an important precondition for the adoption of innovative and contextualized SLM. Involving farmers and researchers in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) of innovative SLM such as regenerativ...

Las crisis alimentarias influyen directamente en el desarrollo de los niños y niñas en diferentes contextos sociales. Una de las propuestas para trabajar esta cuestión son los huertos escolares. En esta investigación, presentamos una herramienta de análisis sobre los aportes innovadores que en la práctica puede proporcionar un huerto escolar, para...

Land supplies multiple goods and services vital to humans and the environment. In the last decades, increasing evidence of growing land degradation are made apparent. A limited and depleting resource base, the reliance on climate-sensitive sectors and its large population, make South Asia highly vulnerable to climate change. Observed changes in cli...

Action-Research methodologies are often considered central elements of the agroecological perspective. In turn, agroecology is considered a scientific approach committed to social change, often linked to an activist approach and with an important dimension of social movement. Recent discussions on applying agroecological transitions to food system...

Regenerative agriculture (RA) is gaining increasing recognition as a plausible solution to restore degraded agroecosystems. In Mediterranean drylands, RA is at incipient state of development and has been limitedly adopted by farmers, partly due to the lack of empirical evidence on its impacts. To support its large-scale adoption, we carried out a p...

Improving the understanding and fostering large-scale adoption of regenerative agriculture (RA) requires soil quality monitoring systems that integrate farmers’ and researchers’ knowledge. This is especially relevant for participatory impact assessment in semiarid areas prone to land degradation that typically respond slowly to management changes,...

1. Nota introductoria En las páginas que siguen pretendemos dar cuenta del proceso histórico de construcción de la Investi-gación Militante (IM), estableciendo un paralelismo con el proceso de configuración histórica de la Agro-ecología como enfoque científico. Este análisis lo va-mos a hacer a través del repaso de aquellos autores (en su mayoría h...

Resumen En el contexto paraguayo, donde la situación agraria está en el centro del debate económico-político, las Organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG) y las Organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC) que apoyan el fortalecimiento de la Soberanía alimentaria, demandan programas formativos que puedan responder mejor a las necesidades que detectan e...

El presente número monográfico de la revista Agro-ecología se ha construido a partir de una selección de los trabajos presentados al Grupo de Trabajo 11, de-nominado "Investigación Militante y Participativa", del VII Congreso Internacional de Agroecología, celebrado en Córdoba (Estado español) en la primavera de 2018. Este grupo de trabajo planteab...

A la hora de discutir las investigaciones volcadas en este número monográfico, cabe señalar en primer lugar que no ha resultado fácil conseguir un número suficiente de artículos de investigación con base empírica, con cier-to recorrido, y con un enfoque de la investigación activista y participativa convergente con el que aquí se ha ex-puesto. La ma...

The certification is a production accreditation process, whereby an entity declares that it recognizes that the products meet the requirements set out in a specific standardization and that they comply with the production, processing and/or marketing standards set out in the reference code of conduct. In Brazil, it is generally carried out by Non-G...

The increasing number of producers and consumers of organic products means that there is an increasing need to guarantee the organic characteristics of organic products. Certification is a tool that bridges the information deficit between demand and supply, ensuring that a product complies with the specified standards. Third-party certification (TP...

Agri-food globalization is having a serious adverse impact on small- and medium-sized family farms in the province of Málaga (southern Spain), 43% of which have disappeared over the last 10 years. Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are emerging as a potential option for this type of farm, but as a strategy it is apparently not being implemented stron...

European official organic sector is conformed by third party certified products. Many critics and dissatisfactions have motivated the emergence of other guarantee systems, based on a intense implication of producers and, in some cases, consumers. We try to analyse the main differences between these Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) and the offic...

La memoria ligada a las semillas, y concretamente los saberes asociados a las variedades locales de tomate de Mallorca, se han preservado gracias a la transmisión oral a lo largo de generaciones. Sin embargo, desde 1950, el envejecimiento de la población rural, los procesos de modernización agraria y el éxodo hacia áreas urbanas ha comportado la pé...

Climate variations are considered one of several interacting factors affecting food security. Specifically, in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) increased exposure to droughts and floods are expected. Local traditional knowledge in agriculture (LTKA) is proposed here as valid knowledge to ensure food availability under climate change, given its long e...

This study focuses on a type of traditional agricultural ecosystem found in southern Spain, called the Navazo, which is the product of agricultural activity carried out in coastal interdune systems. We found examples of similar agroecosystems in different Mediterranean regions, such as the Masseira in Portugal and the Mawasi in the Middle East. The...

La biodiversidad cultivada es un elemento clave para la conservación de agroecosistemas sostenibles que debe abordarse tanto desde una perspectiva ecológica como también desde una perspectiva social. Ambos componentes, natural y social, se conjugan coevolutivamente para dar como resultado una amplitud de sistemas agrarios diversos y adaptados a las...

Este libro indaga propuestas prácticas y miradas aplicadas para construir procesos de soberanía alimentaria

The municipalities of Sanlúcar de Barrameda/Cádiz in Andaluzia/Spain and São Lourenço do Sul/Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil, have in common a food producer family farm based-economy, among them potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). This crop is a socioeconomic and cultural development factor in both municipalities, considering that it is practiced by small farm...

La evaluación de la sostenibilidad en modelos de producción porcina en Cataluña (España), mediante el análisis multicriterio, se estructura en dos partes. Una primera de establecimiento del marco de análisis donde, de forma participativa, se fijan los criterios de evaluación, sus indicadores y las escalas de evaluación. En la segunda se implementa...

The present report aims at contributing to the debate on climate change and food security, within the Indo-Gangetic Plains Region (IGPR). Its focus is on the role that local traditional knowledge in agriculture (LTKA) can play for the communities in the adaptation to climate change in the region. More specifically, this report performs a comprehens...

Que la economía de base capitalista hace aguas por todos lados, no es algo nuevo. Que incorpora de manera estructural los periodos cíclicos de crisis, la especulación por parte del mundo financiero de elementos tan básicos para la subsistencia en el planeta como el medio ambiente (transformándolo en recursos naturales) o la alimentación; la inequid...

Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a methodology consisting of research and in parallel a process of social intervention. It offers an analysis of reality as a form of knowledge and awareness by the people themselves who, through this social intervention process, become active and leading subjects in a project for the development and transforma...

O processo de produção agropecuária, de uma maneira geral, tem se revelado cada vez mais dinâmico, ágil, necessitando adaptações e mudanças pelos agricultores para adequar-se aos novos modelos de produção. Desta forma, trata-se de processos, muitas vezes, complexos e que exigem decisões difíceis. Quando se busca aperfeiçoar e inovar com sistemas de...