Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous peoples’ relationship with the environment play a crucial role in theconservation of biological and agricultural diversity but are also very vulnerable to global changes andpressures. Agroecology has been proposed as a set of principles aiming at making food systems and moregenerally, social-ecological relationships more resilient and equitable. While agroecological principles oftenclaim to be inspired by Indigenous knowledge and values, little research has been performed on howagroecology interacts with Indigenous peoples and contexts in practice. This protocol sets up the foundationto fill this gap by systematically reviewing existing literature about the intersection of agroecology andIndigenous peoples and territories. The objective is to understand how existing studies from academic and grayliterature describe and analyze the interplay and interactions between agroecology and Indigenous peoplesand territories. We focus on 1) the scope and nature of these studies; 2) the characteristics of the describedinteractions in terms of context, support, outcomes, opportunities, and risks, and 3) how they addressIndigenous knowledge, practices, and social movements as well as the scientific, practical, and politicaldimensions of agroecology. Following a clarification of the concepts of Indigenous peoples, territories andagroecology, we provide a search strategy to screen, appraise, extract, code and synthesize existing literatureon the topic.
Boillat et al. (2026) studied this question.