Agroecology Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Conservation of energy and this is an important practice of agroecology.
  2. 5. This is a holistic approach to agriculture that utilizes sustainable and ecofriendly ideas based on ecology.
  3. 6. Practices in agroecology can help increase the security of this.
  4. 7. One of the biggest threats to agriculture is climate _, but agroecology has the potential to address this.
  5. 9. This is a crop that can be harvested multiple times from season to season, and is known to help sequester carbon.
  6. 10. Rather than using synthetic pesticides, agroecology relies on these to naturally reduce pests in crop fields.
  7. 11. Agroecology systems that are like this tend to be more resilient.
Down
  1. 1. Agroecology can reduce the erosion of this.
  2. 3. This is an Element of Agroecology that can reduce waste; one example of it would be returning organic residues back into the soil.
  3. 4. One of the Elements of Agroecology, often depicted in the middle, representing great positive effects of combined interactions of components from managed ecosystems.
  4. 6. Agroecology can improve the health and livelihoods of _.
  5. 8. The FAO lists how many Elements of Agroecology?