Marian Simon-Rojo, Inés Morales Bernardos, and Jon Sanz Landaluze In the aftermath of the economic crisis in the city of Madrid, food geography transformed. The urban unemployed began to engage in agriculture in peri urban areas, creating new alliances between producers and consumers. Over a period of 15 years the alternative food movement organized on the fringe gave way to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
