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Agroekologi och hållbarhet i produktionssystem

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Läsåret 2024/2025

Agroekologi och hållbarhet i produktionssystem (LB0109-20018)

2024-11-01 - 2025-01-19

Läsåret 2023/2024

Agroekologi och hållbarhet i produktionssystem (LB0109-20008)

2023-10-31 - 2024-01-14

Läsåret 2022/2023

Agroekologi och hållbarhet i produktionssystem (LB0109-20071)

2022-11-01 - 2023-01-15

Läsåret 2021/2022

Agroekologi och hållbarhet i produktionssystem (LB0109-20051)

2021-11-02 - 2022-01-16

Läsåret 2020/2021

Agroekologi och hållbarhet i produktionssystem (LB0109-20088)

2020-11-02 - 2021-01-17

Läsåret 2019/2020

Agroekologi och hållbarhet i produktionssystem (LB0109-20006)

2019-11-01 - 2020-01-19

Kursplan och övrig information

Litteraturlista

Literature list for Agroecology and Sustainability of Production Systems (LB0109) and Agroecology and Sustainability of Food Production Systems (LB0131): 2024-2025

Recommended literature related to specific lecture (there could be few changes in lecture schedule and literature list before the course starts). We highly recommend students who have not taken Agroecology Basics course to read *Gliessman, S.R, 2015. *Agroecology: the ecology of sustainable food systems. 3rd ed. CRC Press as it provides a foundation for understanding agroecology.

Date

Lecture topic

Literature

01 Nov

Self-reading of literature to prepare for the course. Students from the Food and Landscape program and other programs will read 1, 2 and 3, while students from the Agroecology program will read 4.

  1. Anderson et al. 2021
  2. Jeanneret et al. 2021
  3. Gliessman 2015 (chapters 22-23)
  4. Chapters 1, 4, 28 and 31 of Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food (Primo - SLU-biblioteket - Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food (exlibrisgroup.com)

04 Nov

Sustainability and challenges for agriculture

Rockström et al. 2009, Steffen et al. 2015, Wezel et al. 2015, Gliessman 2015 (chapters 24)

05 Nov

Integrated weed management

MacLaren et al. 2020

05 Nov

Ecological mechanisms of ecosystem services

Bommarco et al. 2013, Van Huylenbroeck et al. 2007

06 Nov

Agriculture’s climate impact and sustainability in a food system perspective

Poore and Nemecek 2018, Röös et al. 2016

07 Nov

Beneficial biotic interactions and nutrient cycling

Bedoussac et al 2015, Steffen et al. 2015, Gliessman 2015 (chapters 3, 8, 9, 11)

07 Nov

Transition to agroecology

Geels and Schot 2007

08 Nov

The role of biodiversity and its services in agricultural systems

Dainese et al. 2019

11 Nov

Agroforestry

Wilson et al. 2016, Garibaldi et al. 2019


Soil quality and health

Bunemann et al. 2018, William et al. 2020


Agroforestry in South India
12 Nov

Urban and peri-urban agriculture

Benis and Ferrao 2018, Olsson 2018 (chapter 14)

12 Nov

Agroecological livestock production


Muller A, 2015

13 Nov

Sustainability assessment tools, including TAPE

FAO 2019 (TAPE), Schader et al. 2014, Pelzer et al. 2017

14 Nov

Feminist analysis of TAPE tool

González de Molina 2020 (focus on pp 133-135); Morales 2021

21 Nov

Integrated Pest Management

Hokannen and Menzler-Hokkanen 2020

03 Dec

Animal welfare

Broom 2019, Fraser 2008

03 Dec

Global production and trade (prelim)


04 Dec

Markets and welfare

Eriksen 2010, Morse 2010

06 Dec

Agriculture and rural development policies

European commission (CAP), Wästfelt 2018 (chapter 9)

16 Dec

Ethical issues in agriculture

FAO, 2001


## *In addition to this literature, most teachers also provide additional reading lists at the end of their presentation for those who want to learn further.*

Course literature LB0109, Agroecology and Sustainability of Production Systems, 2024-2025

Compulsory reading

Books/book chapters

Anderson, C. R., Bruil, J., Chappell, M. J., Kiss, C., Pimbert, M. P. 2021. Agroecology now! Transformations towards more just and sustainable food systems. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61315-0

Gliessman, S.R., 2015. *Agroecology: the ecology of sustainable food systems.* 3rd ed. CRC Press. (Course textbook, 405 p)
Morse, S., 2010. *Sustainability. A biological perspective*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 5: Socio economic dimensions of sustainability.
Olsson E.G.A., 2018. Routledge handbook of landscape and food. Chapter 14: Peri-urban food production as means towards urban food security and increased urban resilience. [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315647692]()
Wästfelt, A., 2018. Routledge handbook of landscape and food. Chapter 9: Shifts in agriculture praxis: farm modernization and global integration. [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315647692]()
## *Articles and reports*
 Benis, K and Ferrao, P.2018. Commercial farming within the urban built environment- Taking stock of an evolving field in northern countries. Global food security,y 17:30-37

Bedoussac, L. et al., 2015. Ecological principles underlying the increase of productivity achieved by cereal-grain legume intercrops in organic farming. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 35, 911-935.


Bommarco, R., et al., 2013. Ecological intensification: harnessing ecosystem services for food security. *Trends in Ecology and Evolution*, 28, 230–238.
Broom DM, 2019. Animal welfare complementing or conflicting with other sustainability

Issues. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 219, 104829


Bunemann et al. 2018. Soil quality – A critical review. *Soil Biology and Biochemistry,* 120, 105-125
Dainese et al. 2019. A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production. *Science Advances* 5 (10)
Eriksen, H. T., 2010. Small places, large issues. London: Pluto Press. Chapter 12: Exchange and consumption, and chapter 13: Production, nature and technology (pages 184-219).
European Commission. The Common agricultural policy (CAP) at a glance. [https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/key-policies/common-agricultural-policy/cap-glance\_en]()
FAO., 2001. Ethical issues in food and agriculture. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
FAO, 2019. Tool for agroecology performance evaluation (TAPE)-process of development and guidelines for application: Test version. [http://www.fao.org/policy-support/tools-and-publications/resources-details/en/c/1257355/]()
Fraser D, 2008. Understanding animal welfare. *Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica*, **50**(Suppl 1) https://actavetscand.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1751-0147-50-S1-S1

Garibaldi et al. 2019. Policies for Ecological Intensification of Crop Production. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 34, 282-286. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534719300187?via%3Dihub

 Geels, F.W. and Schot, J., 2007. Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways. Research Policy, 36, 399-417

González de Molina, M., Petersen, P. F., Peña, G. F., Caporal, F. R. 2020. The Agents of Agroecological Transition. In: González de Molina, M., Petersen, P. F., Peña, G. F., Caporal, F. R. Political Agroecology: Advancing the Transition to Sustainable Food Systems. New York: CRC Press. 119-142. >> focus on pp. 133-135


Hokannen, H.M.T. and Menzler-Hokkanen, I., 2020. Improving the efficacy of biological control by ecostacking. In Y.Gao et al. (eds), *Integrative Biological Control*, 3-16. [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44838-7\_1]()
Jeanneret, Ph., Aviron, S., Alignier, A., Lavigne, C., Helfenstein, J., Herzog, F., Kay, S., Petit, S. 2021. Agroecology landscapes. Landscape Ecology. 36(8), 2235−2257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01248-0
MacLaren et al. 2020. An ecological future for weed science to sustain crop production and the environment. A review. *Agronomy for Sustainable Development,* 40, 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-020-00631-6Morales, H. 2021. Agroecological feminism. Agroecology and sustainable food systems. 45(7), 955−956. [https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2021.1927544]()

Muller A. 2015. The role of livestock in agroecology and sustainable food systems. https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/30166/1/mueller-2015-feeding-people-ifoamEUgroup-chapter6-p30-33.pdf

 Pelzer, E. et al., 2017. Design, assessment and feasibility of legume-based cropping systems in three European regions Crop & Pasture Science, 68, 902-914.
 Poore, J. and Nemecek, T., 2018. Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers. Science, 360, 987–992.
 Rockström, J. et al., 2009. Planetary boundaries: exploring the safe operating space for humanity. Ecology and Society 14(2):32
 Röös, E. et al., 2016. Limiting livestock production to pasture and by-products in a search for sustainable diets. Food Policy, 58, 1-13.
 Schader, C. et al., 2014. Scope and precision of sustainability assessment approaches to food systems. Ecology and Society 19(3):42-
 Steffen et al., 2015. Planetary Boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science 347 (issue 6223).
 William et al. 2020. The influence of soil management on soil health: An on-farm study in southern Sweden. Geoderma 360, 114010
 Wilson, H.M., et al., 2016. Agroforestry-The next step in sustainable and resilient agriculture. Sustainability 8, 754
 van Huylenbroeck, G. et al., 2007. Multifunctionality of agriculture: a review of definitions, evidence and instruments Living Reviews in Landscape Research, 1, 1–38.

Wezel, A. et al. 2015. The blurred boundaries of ecological, sustainable, and agroecological intensification: a review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 35, 1283-1295.


Kursfakta

Kursen ges som en fristående kurs: Ja Kursen ges som en programkurs: Agroecology - Master's Programme Kursavgift: Studieavgift, endast för medborgare utanför EU, EES, och Schweiz: 38060 SEK Nivå: Avancerad nivå (A1N)
Ämne: Lantbruksvetenskap Biologi
Kurskod: LB0109 Anmälningskod: SLU-20016 Plats: Alnarp Distanskurs: Nej Undervisningsspråk: Engelska Ansvarig institution: Institutionen för biosystem och teknologi Studietakt: 100%