Today agro-ecology is inspiring more and more people across the world as an alternative to industrial agriculture. This is because more and more people are beginning to look at how food is produced and distributed, as well as its impact on our health more consciously. However agro-ecology has its roots in different approaches to agriculture that favoured a return to biological farming processes, used in the past by our ancestors throughout the world. These emerged earlier in the 20th century, following the capture of agriculture by capitalist industrial agriculture.