M A Altieri

Biographic Data

ID2408
NAMEM A Altieri
GIVEN NAMESM A
FAMILY NAMEAltieri
SIGNATUREALTIERI M A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
ORCID0000-0001-8573-4334
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS613
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX9

  • Learning from the future: Mainstreaming disruptive solutions for the transition to sustainable food systems

    Open AccessVivian Valencia, Edward M Bennett et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    We comment on one of the scientific paradoxes of our times in the field of global studies on food: the influential scenario studies that call for new paradigms for the global food system are themselves locked into a past solution space. We posit that the extrapolation of past solution spaces into the future runs the risk of restricting the modelled scenarios to futures that are very similar to the status quo. We propose a novel complementary appr…

  • Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

    Open AccessSteven R Mcgreevy, Caroline Rupprecht et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Cited by: 8References: 17

  • Do modelo agroquímico à agroecologia: A busca por sistemas alimentares saudáveis e resilientes em tempos de Covid-19

    Open AccessM A Altieri, Clara I NichollsARTICLEDesenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente2021Cited by: 1

    A irrupção inesperada da crise de COVID-19 exige uma transição agroecológica mais efetiva no contexto das políticas em curso de desenvolvimento rural e urbano em todo o mundo. Para avançarmos, uma reorientação drástica dos sistemas de produção, distribuição e consumo de alimentos parece inevitável. À primeira vista, esse impulso exigirá a mobilização de cinco estratégias: a abolição progressiva do uso de pesticidas; o enriquecimento da matriz eco…

  • Agroecology and the emergence of a post Covid-19 agriculture

    Open AccessM A Altieri, Clara I NichollsARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2020Cited by: 13

  • Agroecology and the reconstruction of a post-Covid-19 agriculture

    M A Altieri, Clara I NichollsARTICLEThe Journal of Peasant Studies2020Cited by: 47References: 35

    The COVID-19 crisis has created a moment where existing calls for agroecology acquire new relevance. Agroecology provides a path to reconstruct a post-COVID-19 agriculture, one that is able to avoid widespread disruptions of food supplies in the future by territorializing food production and consumption. There are five main areas in which agroecology can point the way to a new post-COVID-19 agriculture: overcoming the pesticide treadmill, enrichi…

  • Desafios Dos Mercados Institucionais Para Promover a Transição Agroecológica

    Open AccessRicardo Serra Borsatto, M A Altieri et al.ARTICLERaízes Revista de Ciências…2019Cited by: 1

    Iniciativas para fomentar a transição agroecológica e orgânica tem despertado o interesse de gestores público ao redor do mundo, e políticas para promover sua adoção têm sido implementadas. Entretanto, pesquisas avaliando a efetividade destas políticas ainda são raras. Com o objetivo de compreender o papel que políticas baseadas em compras públicas e incentivas de preços têm em territorializar sistemas de produção orgânicos/agroecológicos, avalia…

  • Agroecology: Science and Politics

    Peter M Rosset, C Ronald Carroll et al.BOOKAgroecology2017

    "Our global food system is largely based on unsustainable industrial agricultural practices, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, is controlled by a handful of large corporations and produces unhealthy food. Agroecology is a solution to these increasingly urgent problems. After decades of being dismissed by mainstream institutions and defended in obscurity by grassroots movements and farmers, agroecology is suddenly in fashion. The UN F…

  • The adaptation and mitigation potential of traditional agriculture in a changing climate

    Open AccessM A Altieri, Clara I NichollsARTICLEClimatic Change2017

  • Agroecology and the design of climate change-resilient farming systems

    Open AccessM A Altieri, Clara I Nicholls et al.ARTICLEAgronomy for Sustainable…2015

  • Determinación de los niveles de riesgo socioecológico ante sequías en sistemas agrícolas campesinos de La Araucanía chilena. Influencia de la diversidad cultural y la agrobiodiversidad

    Open AccessRené Montalba, Francisca Fonseca et al.ARTICLEPapers Revista de Sociologia2015

    Aquest treball pretén fomentar l’enteniment de la interrelació entre riscos ambientals generats pel canvi climàtic i la capacitat d’utilitzar unitats i sistemes agrícoles (com a sistemes socioecològics) per resistir aquestes pertorbacions i persistir en el temps. Es van avaluar 177 famílies que practicaven agricultura camperola de la regió de La Araucanía (Xile) i que estaven diferenciades, d’acord amb el seu origen ètnic, en maputxes, xilens i d…

  • Agroecologically efficient agricultural systems for smallholder farmers: Contributions to food sovereignty

    Open AccessM A Altieri, Fernando R Funes-Monzote et al.ARTICLEAgronomy for Sustainable…2012

    The realization of the contribution of peasant agriculture to food security in the midst of scenarios of climate change, economic and energy crisis, led to the concepts of food sovereignty and agroecologically based production systems to gain much attention in the developing world in the last two decades. New approaches and technologies involving application of blended modern agricultural science and indigenous knowledge systems and spearheaded b…

  • The Paradox of Cuban Agriculture

    M A AltieriARTICLEMonthly Review2012Cited by: 12

    When Cuba faced the shock of lost trade relations with the Soviet Bloc in the early 1990s, food production initially collapsed due to the loss of imported fertilizers, pesticides, tractors, parts, and petroleum. The situation was so bad that Cuba posted the worst growth in per capita food production in all of Latin America and the Caribbean. But the island rapidly re-oriented its agriculture to depend less on imported synthetic chemical inputs, a…

  • Agroecologia, Agricultura Camponesa E Soberania Alimentar

    Open AccessM A AltieriARTICLEREVISTA NERA2012Cited by: 4

    Forças globais questionam a capacidade dos países em desenvolvimento para alimentarem-se. Vários países têm organizado suas economias em torno de um competitivo setor agrícola orientado para a exportação, baseado principalmente nas monoculturas. Pode-se afirmar que as exportações agrícolas de culturas, como a soja no Brasil, contribuem enormemente às economias ao trazer divisas fortes que se pode utilizar para comprar outros bens no estrangeiro. …

  • The agroecological revolution in Latin America: Rescuing Nature, Ensuring Food Sovereignty and Empowering Peasants

    M A Altieri, M Toledo et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Peasant Studies2011Cited by: 266References: 28

    This paper provides an overview of what we call 'agroecological revolution' in Latin America. As the expansion of agroexports and biofuels continues unfolding in Latin America and warming the planet, the concepts of food sovereignty and agroecology-based agricultural production gain increasing attention. New approaches and technologies involving the application of blended agroecological science and indigenous knowledge systems are being spearhead…

  • The Ecological Impacts of Large-Scale Agrofuel Monoculture Production Systems in the Americas

    Open AccessM A AltieriARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2009

    This article examines the expansion of agrofuels in the Americas and the ecological impacts associated with the technologies used in the production of large-scale monocultures of corn and soybeans. In addition to deforestation and displacement of lands devoted to food crops due to expansion of agrofuels, the massive use of transgenic crops and agrochemical inputs, mainly fertilizers and herbicides used in the production of agrofuels, pose grave e…

  • La agroecología frente a la crisis alimentaria global

    Open AccessM A Altieri, Miguel AltieriARTICLELetras Verdes Revista Latinoamerica…2009

    Revista de ciencia sociales interesada en temas socioambientales, sustentabilidad, ecología, cambio climático, biodiversidad, soberanía alimentaria, energía, minería y petróleo a nivel local regional y global

  • Agroecology, Small Farms, and Food Sovereignty

    M A AltieriARTICLEMonthly Review2009Cited by: 31

    Global forces are challenging the ability of developing countries to feed themselves. A number of countries have organized their economies around a competitive export-oriented agricultural sector, based mainly on monocultures. It may be argued that agricultural exports of crops such as soybeans from Brazil make significant contributions to the national economies by bringing in hard currency that can be used to purchase other goods from abroad. Ho…

  • The Myth of Coexistence: Why Transgenic Crops Are Not Compatible With Agroecologically Based Systems of Production

    Open AccessM A AltieriARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2005

    The coexistence of genetically modified (GM) crops and non-GM crops is a myth because the movement of transgenes beyond their intended destinations is a certainty, and this leads to genetic contamination of organic farms and other systems. It is unlikely that transgenes can be retracted once they have escaped, thus the damage to the purity of non-GM seeds is permanent. The dominant GM crops have the potential to reduce biodiversity further by inc…

  • Transgenic Crops: Implications for Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture

    Open AccessMaria Alice Amorim Garcia, Maria Alice Garcia et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2005

    The potential for genetically modified (GM) crops to threaten biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture is substantial. Megadiverse countries and centers of origin and/or diversity of crop species are particularly vulnerable regions. The future of sustainable agriculture may be irreversibly jeopardized by contamination of in situ preserved genetic resources threatening a strategic resource for the world—s food security. Because GM cro…

  • Linking ecologists and traditional farmers in the search for sustainable agriculture

    Open AccessM A AltieriARTICLEFrontiers in Ecology and the…2004

    For centuries, traditional farmers have developed diverse and locally adapted agricultural systems, managing them with ingenious practices that often result in both community food security and the conservation of agrobiodiversity. This strategy of minimizing risk stabilizes yields, promotes dietary diversity, and maximizes returns using low levels of technology and limited resources. These microcosms of agricultural heritage still cover no less t…

  • The Sociocultural and Food Security Impacts of Genetic Pollution via Transgenic Crops of Traditional Varieties in Latin American Centers of Peasant Agriculture

    Open AccessM A AltieriARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2003

    The introduction of transgenic crops into centers of diversity or areas dominated by traditional agriculture threatens genetic diversity as well as indigenous knowledge and culture. It is further argued that the impacts go beyond genetic changes in heterogeneous native crop varieties to embrace effects on evolutionary processes such as gene flow between native crops and wild relatives, and erosion of local knowledge systems such as folk taxonomie…

  • Agroecology: The Ecology of Food Systems

    Carolee Francis, Geir Lieblein et al.ARTICLEAgroecology and Sustainable Food…2003Cited by: 96

    We present a compelling rationale for defining agroecology as the ecology of food systems. Our purpose is to provide a framework that will guide research, education, and action in the multiple and interacting facets of an increasingly complex global agriculture and food system. To accomplish such goals, it is essential to build bridges and connections among and beyond our disciplines in production agriculture, as well as beyond the farm gate into…

  • Agroecology: The science of natural resource management for poor farmers in marginal environments

    Open AccessM A AltieriARTICLEAgriculture, Ecosystems &…2002

  • For An Agriculture That Doesn’t Get Rid Of Farmers

    M A Altieri, Miguel AltieriARTICLENACLA Report on the Americas2002

  • Genetically Engineered Crops: Separating the Myths From the Reality

    Open AccessM A AltieriARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2001