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Taking agroecology to scale: the Zero Budget Natural Farming peasant movement in Karnataka, India

Ashlesha Khadse, Peter Michael Rosset, Helda Morales & Bruce G. Ferguson This paper analyzes how peasant movements scale up agroecology. It specifically examines Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), a grassroots peasant agroecology movement in Karnataka, India. ZBNF ends reliance on purchased inputs and loans for farming, positioning itself as a solution to extreme indebtedness and suicides among Indian farmers. The […]

Seed sovereignty and agroecological scaling: two cases of seed recovery, conservation, and defense in Colombia

Valeria García López, Omar Felipe Giraldo, Helda Morales, Peter M. Rosset & José María Duarte By evaluating two grassroots organizations that belong to the Red de Semillas Libres de Colombia (RSLC; Free Seed Network of Colombia), we show how the recovery, conservation, and defense of native and creole seeds have two types of effects on agroecological scaling. The first is […]

Transitions in agriculture: Three frameworks highlighting coexistence between a new agroecological configuration and an old, organic and conventional configuration of vegetable production in Wallonia (Belgium)

Antoinette M. Dumonta,⁎, Pierre Gasselinb, Philippe V. Baretc The contribution of the multi-level perspective (MLP) to study transition dynamics is widely recognized. MLP involves examining interactions between three socio-technical levels: niche, regime and landscape. Empirical analysis of niche-regime interactions when applying this framework to agricultural transitions to sustainability remains challenging, however. The diversity of historical farming systems within a region […]

Targeting perennial vegetation in agricultural landscapes for enhancing ecosystem services

H. Asbjornsen1,2*, V. Hernandez-Santana1,2,3, M. Liebman4, J. Bayala5, J. Chen6, M. Helmers7, C.K. Ong8 and L.A. Schulte1† Over the past century, agricultural landscapes worldwide have increasingly been managed for the primary purpose of producing food, while other diverse ecosystem services potentially available from these landscapes have often been undervalued and diminished. The incorporation of relatively small amounts of perennial vegetation […]

Food sovereignty or bust Transforming the agrifood system is a must

Joshua Sbicca The fight for food sovereignty is a response to the current corporate food regime, one predicated on industrial modes of production, corporate concentration in supply chains, the patenting of seeds and biotechnology, and neoliberal trade policies that displace agrifood systems in poor and developing countries (McMichael, 2009a). While peasants throughout the Global South fare poorly as their land […]