Agroecology in Venezuela

Agroecology was born as a consequence of the need of human beings to produce food to maintain themselves as a species but without destroying or minimizing the impact that agricultural activities have on the environment on a global scale. From the etymological point of view the word ecology is a compound word: agroecology is formed by Greek roots and means agriculture that takes care of the relationships between living beings and their environment. Its lexical components are: agros (field land in its natural state) and oikos (house) plus the suffix -logía (science that studies). Agroecology is a scientific discipline a set of practices and a social movement according to the definition of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).