Agroecology Now!
Transformations Towards More Just and Sustainable Food Systems
Published on 8. December 2020
Book
Hardback
XIV, 199 pages
978-3-030-61314-3 (ISBN)
Description
This open access book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It explores the potential of agroecology as a sustainable and socially just alternative to today's dominant food regime. Agroecology is an ecological approach to farming that addresses climate change and biodiversity loss while contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals. Agroecology transformations represent a challenge to the power of corporations in controlling food system and a rejection of the industrial food systems that are at the root of many social and ecological ills. In this book the authors analyse the conditions that enable and disable agroecology's potential and present six 'domains of transformation' where it comes into conflict with the dominant food system. They argue that food sovereignty, community-self organization and a shift to bottom-up governance are critical for the transformation to a socially just and ecologically viablefood system. This book will be a valuable resource to researchers, students, policy makers and professionals across multidisciplinary areas including in the fields of food politics, international development, sustainability and resilience.
Reviews / Votes
"The insights of this book are highly relevant to policy makers, but its scholarly approach makes it suitable for audiences . especially undergraduate and graduate students in interdisciplinary, sustainability or social sciences programs and agroecology practitioners. . 'Agroecology now!,' has a wide array of material with more accessible language, as well as videos. . This book is likely to help the reader to reflect on their own agency and how it relates to transformation of their local food systems." (Rafael Cavalcanti Lembi, Agriculture and Human Values, Vol. 39, 2022)More details
Edition
1st ed. 2021
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
19 farbige Abbildungen
XIV, 199 p. 19 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
398 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-61314-3 (9783030613143)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-61315-0
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Colin Ray Anderson
is Associate Professor at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, UK. His research focuses on food systems, sustainability transitions, social movement organizing and knowledge mobilization.
Janneke Bruil is a co-founder, facilitator and researcher at Cultivate! , an international collective that works with social movements to advance healthy and just food systems rooted in agroecology. She is also an active member of Voedsel Anders , the Dutch food sovereignty platform.
M. Jahi Chappell is the Executive Director of SAAFON (the Southeastern African-American Farmers' Organic Network), the author of the award-winning book Beginning to End Hunger , and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Agroecology, Water, and Resilience, UK.
Csilla Kiss works as International Research Engagement and Liaison Officer at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, UK. She supports collaborative research across the world on socially just and ecologically sustainable food systems.
Michel Patrick Pimbert is Professor of Agroecology and Food Politics as well as Director of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, UK.
Janneke Bruil is a co-founder, facilitator and researcher at Cultivate! , an international collective that works with social movements to advance healthy and just food systems rooted in agroecology. She is also an active member of Voedsel Anders , the Dutch food sovereignty platform.
M. Jahi Chappell is the Executive Director of SAAFON (the Southeastern African-American Farmers' Organic Network), the author of the award-winning book Beginning to End Hunger , and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Agroecology, Water, and Resilience, UK.
Csilla Kiss works as International Research Engagement and Liaison Officer at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, UK. She supports collaborative research across the world on socially just and ecologically sustainable food systems.
Michel Patrick Pimbert is Professor of Agroecology and Food Politics as well as Director of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, UK.
Content
1. Introduction.- Part I. Agroecology and Sustainability Transformations.- 2. Origins, Benefits and the Political Basis of Agroecology.- 3. Conceptualizing Processes of Agroecological Transformations: From Scaling to Transition to Transformation.- Part II. Domains of Agroecology Transformations.- 4. Domain A: Rights and Access to Natural Ecosystems - Land, Water, Seeds and Biodiversity.- 5. Domain B: Knowledge and Culture.- 6. Domain C: Systems of Economic Exchange.- 7. Domain D: Networks.- 8. Domain E: Equity.- 9. Domain F: Discourse.- Part III. Drilling Down on Power and Governance in Agroecology Transformations.- 10. Power, Governance and Agroecology Transformations.- 11. Reflexive Participatory Governance for Agroecological Transformations.- 12. Conclusion.