Ecological soil management: key to the agroecological transition proces

Abstract

Conventional agriculture has contributed to the degradation of natural ecosystems and agro -ecosystems, resulting in loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Epistemologically, agroecologyexpands beyond the structures of agriculture, assisting in the ethical change of human beings. Thus, the ecological management that characterizes the soil as a living and functional being, comes to be seen as a tool for the agroecological transition. This research investigates the role of ecological soil management and its relationship with the agroecological transition, the reestablishment of ecosystemservices and edaphic agrobiodiversity. This is a qualitative study, using the narrative review of knowledge present in the scientific literature as a methodological procedure. The results suggest that soil management is indirectly/directly connected to ecosystem services, as well as its possibility to reestablish agrobiodiversity. It is concluded that ecological soil management reestablishes the role of soil as a self-regulator of ecological processes and fundamental for the agroecological transition