ABSTRACT

To face climate change threats and ensure food security of the growing population, agriculture around the world is making plans, innovating, and developing strategies and approaches for a sustainable agriculture and agroecosystems resilience. However, it is necessary to clarify ambiguities existing between the definition of the two concepts of resilience and sustainability, 106particularly what is meant by resilience in agriculture, because it is becoming apparent that the term resilience is not clear to many of us. We think that resilience is what makes an agricultural system sustainable. Indeed, there is a significant overlap in defining resilience and sustainability, therefore making less evident the power of resilience in improving agroecosystems and agriculture (Schewenius et al. 2014).