Pathogens emerge from a global agrifood system characterized by inequality, labor exploitation, and extractivism, which deprives communities of their natural and social resources. This crisis-prone economic model prioritizes profit over human needs and ecological preservation, leading to intense monocultural production that facilitates the emergence of deadly diseases. The PReP Agroecologies working group explores how agriculture can be reimagined as a community-wide intervention to prevent the emergence of coronaviruses and other pathogens. We examine how mainstream science supports the political and economic systems that contributed to the pandemic and introduce agroecology—an environmentalism rooted in peasant, poor, and indigenous practices that integrates agriculture into the broader ecology of food production. Agroecology, as a science, movement, and practice, combines ecological science, indigenous knowledge, and social movements advocating for food and territorial sovereignty to create environmentally just food systems. Peasant- and indigenous-led agroecology can limit zoonotic virus spread by championing those who protect agricultural biodiversity. A diverse agroecological landscape can conserve animal biodiversity, making it harder for zoonotic diseases to thrive, while also considering the economic and social conditions of land stewards, rather than displacing people for capital accumulation.
Pandemic Research for the Peo Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
