ABSTRACT
The most comprehensive critique of the Green Revolution–industrial agriculture–is that it helped to spawn climate change and continues to exacerbate and magnify its effects. Industrial agriculture or agribusiness has been taken over by capitalists to maximize profits, not quality food. The Convention on Biological Diversity establishes three main goals: the conservation of biological diversity, sustainability, and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits from the use of genetic resources. By building synergies, agroecology can support food production and food security and nutrition while restoring the ecosystem services and biodiversity that are essential for sustainable agriculture. The Slow Food Movement is to consumers what the Agroecology Movement is to growers. Peasant farmers advocate Slow Food or agroecology, and they call it "Food Sovereignty." The right to healthy, nutritious food, in other words, is food sovereignty, whereas the practice of growing healthy, nutritious food is agroecology.
