In the GFAR, the identification of NRM with Agroecology has been accepted and
consecrated, although their is still no formal definition of what this association means.
Agroecology is an integrating science which seeks to understand flows of energy, information
and matter in agricultural ecosystems in order to optimise the outputs while minimising the
use of external inputs and avoiding the mining and pollution of natural resources.
Agroecology goes beyond a one dimensional view of agroecosystems ¿ their genetics,
agronomy, edaphology, and so on ¿ to embrace an understanding of ecological and social
levels of co-evolution, structure and function. Instead of focusing on one particular
component of the agroecosystems, agroecology emphasises the inter-relatedness of all
agroecosystem components and the complex dynamics of ecological processes