Sustainable Agroecology

This open access book brings together perspectives and experiences from countries of the Global South, focusing on actors and practices of sustainable agroecology. It offers a multidisciplinary analysis across political economy, sociology, agricultural science, political science, and biology. It discusses key terms and metaphors such as organic transition, production for wellbeing, seed guardians, and preservation of local knowledge, agroecology as an anti-capitalist alternative, a green revolution, a (feminist) utopia, and social struggles for land rights, justice, dignity, and environmental intersectional justice.It highlights how agroecology addresses the challenge of overcoming “imperial ways of life” and explores pathways toward a socially and ecologically just and less violent world. This book contributes to multiple SDGs, including poverty and hunger eradication (SDGs 1 & 2), gender equality (SDG 5), water-use efficiency (SDG 6), decent work (SDG 8), and sustainable consumption and production (SDG 12).