Because agroecology has different meanings, it may be used in an arbitrary and potentially abusive way when deployed by development cooperation actors conceiving “agroecology-based” development projects. To make the appropriation of agroecology more transparent, we first review the recent attempts in academia to clarify the concept and identify two main trends: a principle-based agroecology and a series of different agroecologies. Based on a critical assessment of these attempts, we then propose a new framework to program, implement and analyze agroecological development projects: it distinguishes different agroecologies with their corresponding categories of principles and their scales of intervention. Further, we argue in favor of a specific category of methodological principles.

由于农业生态学具有不同的含义，因此当由构想“基于农业生态学”的开发项目的发展合作参与者部署时，农业生态学可以任意使用并可能滥用。为了使生态农业的拨款更加透明，我们首先回顾学术界最近试图澄清这一概念，并确定两个主要趋势：一个原则为基础的农业生态和一系列不同的agroecolog的独立实体。在对这些尝试进行批判性评估的基础上，我们然后提出了一个新的框架，以编程，实施和分析农业生态发展项目：该框架将不同的农业生态及其相应的原则类别和干预规模加以区分。此外，我们主张采用特定类别的方法学原理。