...David Meek; Bernardo Mançano Fernandes; Estevan Coca This article focuses on the contested interconnections between affective labor, agroecological education, and territory in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We understand territory to be both embodied, material and immaterial: whereas material...

... to new areas and operations, we highlight dry farming’s history as an agroecological alternative to industrial farming in the region and the need for careful policy planning to maintain that identity. In examining this California Central Coast dry farming system, we ask if and how it can enhance...

.../ . Gene editing Climate Evidence Colonialism Coloniality/modernity Agroecology Food systems Over the past 20 years, agroecologists worldwide have moved from simply redesigning farming practices and farming fields to demanding systemic food system change ( Méndez et al., 2013 ; Mier y Terán...

... and a community-based network of rural women across Bangladesh, this essay explores frictions and contradictions that trouble our efforts to co-create knowledge for agroecological transformations. Rather than suggesting these troubles can be resolved, we attempt to stay with them in this article, locating them...

...Elise Wach; Ruth Hall Amid socially and ecologically failing food systems, land commoning has been proposed as a pathway to align food systems with agroecology and food sovereignty. This article aims to contribute to nascent understandings of land commoning movements in relatively deagrarianized...

...Chitrangada Choudhury This article traces the coming of a genetically modified (GM) cotton-agrochemical complex to highland eastern India. In this region of rich biodiversity and Indigenous systems of food and agroecology, GM cotton cultivation has seen a meteoric rise over the past decade. I...

...Margriet Goris; Eliane Bakker; Leonardo van den Berg; Marianna Siegmund-Schultze; Sinéad O’ Keeffe; Marc Ravesloot; Conny Bufe; Jan Hassink Rights and access to land are major pressing issues among mainly first-generation agroecological farmers in the Netherlands. Due to short-term tenure contracts...

... Agroecology Agrobiodiversity Diversified farming systems Perennial agriculture Permaculture In the past century, agricultural policies and economic conditions have encouraged the development of industrial agriculture, incentivizing farmers to maximize yields using manufactured inputs...

...Víctor M. Toledo; Quetzal Argueta During the last 2 decades, several studies have analyzed the theoretical and practical development of agroecology in different countries. In each country, the transition has followed different paths and paces. Using a detailed review of myriad sources, this article...

... of power, knowledge, being, and nature continue to shape the character and form of agriculture in both countries, running counter to the needs of agroecological smallholder farmers and their ways of knowing and being. We conclude by envisioning what reimagined, transformed and decolonial approaches...

... science teachers, and researchers interested in seed management and participatory plant breeding, it questions the use of science and the position of social scientists in processes of agroecological transformation. The paper provides an analytical insight into the knowledge ecology of stakeholders who...

... International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Nature-based climate solution Agroecology Policy Decision-making Text analytics...

... as effective and resilient adaptive strategies from which to respond to shifting threats across time—from Aztec and Spanish colonialism to contemporary resistance to neoliberalism. Although agroecology is rooted in indigenous origins, the global adoption of agroecology often focuses heavily on what is planted...

... preference, all in the same direction, may help us to gain much-needed momentum. Agroecology Biodiversity Participatory breeding Approximately 100 million years ago, flowering plants took advantage of their impressive acquisition of advantageous traits to take over our Earth’s landscape...

... organizations from Pennsylvania to Eastern Canadian provinces, this article examines how the emergence of new ideas and agroecological innovations are influenced by geography, network affiliation, and perceived agency. First, we use regression analysis to identify factors that influence the use of no-till...

...Galia Figueroa Alfonso The literature on agroecology in Cuba agrees that Cuban agroecology is small-scale, non-state, and not prioritized by state agricultural input allocation policies. This article grapples with these 3 assumptions by analyzing the historical and recent agricultural policies...

...Dana James; Jennifer Blesh; Christian Levers; Navin Ramankutty; Abram J. Bicksler; Anne Mottet; Hannah Wittman Agroecology is increasingly recognized as a pathway for agricultural transformation that can mitigate environmental harms and improve social equity. Yet, the lack of broad-scale...

...Eija Soini Coe; Richard Coe Agroecology has evolved and is promoted as an integrated pathway for the development of food and agriculture systems in ways that address the interacting social, economic, and environmental challenges of current dominant systems. Agroecology is usually described...

...Hannah Wittman; Dana James Agroecological transitions aim to redesign the structure of contemporary global food systems to improve food security, ecosystem health, community development, worker livelihoods, and social and ecological justice. A fundamental principle of agroecology is the responsible...

...Rachel Bezner Kerr; Jeffrey Liebert; Moses Kansanga; Daniel Kpienbaareh Addressing human and social values is a core element of agroecology, including questions of equity and social justice in food systems, supporting autonomy and well-being of food producers, fostering meaningful, dignified forms...