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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.
Contents
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.