The term “agroecology†was proposed in the 1930s and has been in use of quite sometime. It became a discipline in its own right in the 1980s. Of course, the roots of an ecological approach to agriculture go back to the dawn of the agricultural revolution, when early farmers could contend with the elements only by understanding the ecological forces that could be wielded to design an agroecosystem. Recently, as traditional agronomic approaches have faced ...