Agroecology Now!

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.

• 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.

“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)