Repeasantization in Developing Countries, An Extention Based on Direct Experience
The method by which small-scale farmers produce food in poor countries is a form of polyculture long considered to be outmoded by so-called conventional farmers and governments. Researchers, several of them geographers, have contributed to demonstrating its role and scientific applications. The advent of sustainable development and agro-ecology in the last quarter of the 20th century gave it fresh impetus. This method of food production, currently referred to as intercropping agriculture on account of its ecological impact and its special contribution to food production, has led the United Nations to declare it, alongside biological agriculture, as being “nearly organic” and particularly appropriate for solving the food crisis in Africa and in the developing world at large.