Dear Ouorou,

Organic farming ensures that the production method is respectful of the environment and animal welfare. The products resulting from the organic farming carry an official logo which proves the respect of the specifications: This mode of production excludes plant protection products - fertilizers and pesticides - as well as GMOs. In addition to preserving your health and the environment, organic farming allows farmers to live better because their production is more profitable: there is no purchase of pesticides, operating costs are lower and selling prices are larger.

Agroecology emphasizes that social and ecological systems are inseparable. This means that agriculture and food systems are closely linked. Like peasant agriculture, agroecology preserves the environment, is productive and autonomous, using local human and natural resources. Its difference lies in the fact that, in addition to being an agricultural technique, agroecology is a scientific discipline and a popular movement for the defense of agricultural workers.

Organic farming is more respectful of the environment and consumer health: its techniques preserve soil quality, biodiversity, air and water quality. This is a big step, but the advocates of agroecology go further: they advocate agriculture in total harmony with nature, for sustainable agricultural development.

Agroecology respects not only the environment, but it establishes a real symbiosis with it. Farmers and land live in tune. Not only does ecological agriculture preserve the environment, but it also makes the soil sustainably productive, thus forming a virtuous circle.

Regards

Bachir ACHOUR

Organic farming is a method of crop and livestock production that involves much more than choosing not to use pesticides, fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, antibiotics and growth hormones.

Agroecological agriculture (of which organic is one system) supports small farms that are diverse, integrated and use low levels of input to ensure the long-term balance between food production and the sustainability of natural resources.

Agroecology views agriculture from an ecological perspective. Farmland, after all, is an ecosystem – a complex network in which every living and nonliving component of the system affects every other component, either directly or indirectly.This ecosystem view of agriculture considers all of the services provided by farmland to humans – soil health, water quality, air quality, pest control, disease control, biodiversity, and so forth – in addition to food production.

Dear Dr. Ouorou Ganni Mariel Guera,

Difference between Organic Farming and Agroecological Farming:

I hope the information will help you.

With Best Wishes,

Samir G. Pandya

Thank you for your answers. They were very helpful.

Regards !