Ecoagriculture and agroecology as technology strategy wich increases the ecosystem services. a review
2014
Jorge A. Fonseca | Alfredo de J. Jarma | José A. Cleve
Human activities such as agriculture and livestock cause deterioration of ecosystems and biodiversity loss. Given this reality have increased actions to implement policies that promote the preservation and sustainability of natural ecosystems that are still preserved and productive agroecosystems, which provide invaluable benefits to human economic, social and cultural level, such benefits are called ecosystem services. Possible strategies to realize these policies on agricultural production activities using approaches Ecoagriculture Agroecology and fundamentals that provide the basis for structuring farming systems where the policy of sustainability and preservation materializes proposed biodiversity. This analysis seeks to highlight important aspects in the definition of ecosystem services, their valuation and characteristics of farm-level approaches that have been used with a view to the conservation and enhancement of such services in the current agricultural context.
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