NICARAGUA: POTENTIAL REGIONAL SPOTLIGHT FOR THE DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF AGROECOLOGICAL AGROECOSYSTEMS

Abstract

This article expresses the urgent need to convert conventional production systems in agro ecological farms as an alternative to the new agrarian enterprise, to ensure the implementation of good manufacturing practices in crop production and contribute to provide safe products and services focused in total quality. From this perspective, the Universidad Nacional Agraria offers a training program for human talents at different levels in agro ecology, which consists of five major projects. Also, the current national legal structure implement agro ecological and organic production policies, to promote ago ecological and organic production in Nicaragua. It is also shows the steps for the design and evaluation of agro-ecological systems, whose topics are: groups and characteristics of agro ecosystems, complex or diversified types of agro ecosystems, biodiversity to be considered for the design of sustainable diversified systems in the tropics, axes to be considered to design sustainable diversified systems in the tropics including integral management of natural resources, processes for designing sustainable diversified systems in the tropics, steps and tools for designing diversified sustainable systems in the tropics which supplied goods and services to society, examples of diversified sustainable systems in the tropics which provided goods and services, challenges for the design of diversified sustainable systems in the tropics and assessment of diversified sustainable systems . The purpose is to foster a resilient agriculture to climate change, productive and efficient (energy, economic and biodivers) as well as that ensure Food security and nutrition

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/calera.v13i20.1634