ABSTRACT
Power and profits are the motivating factors behind the current industrial agricultural paradigm. Our food system is now based on concentrated control over resources, distribution and decision-making by a select few. Productivity has been increased, but at what cost? The current food system has disproportionately affected marginalised populations, amplifying hunger and inequalities. It has devastated the environment, depleted soils, polluted rivers, destroyed forests and harmed virtually every species of wild-living creature. Many farmers have lost autonomy and gone into debt. There is a better way to farm, the agroecological way. Agroecology enhances autonomy and resilience through a system in which communities and small-scale farmers shape their own systems and the environment is protected and enriched.
