Academic Publications
Scaling Agroecology from the Bottom up: Six Domains of Transformation
Academic Publication | Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Colin R. Anderson, Csilla Kiss, Janneke Bruil, M. Jahi Chappell and Michel P. Pimbert | Feb 21, 2020
How can agroecology be advanced, amplified, scaled up and out? In each context, there are enabling and disabling conditions that shape the potential for agroecology to be scaled. This Food First Issue Brief identifies six ‘domains of transformation’ that are essential to consider in agroecology transformations.
Capitalism, food, and social movements: The political economy of food system transformation
Academic Publication | Eric Holt-Giménez | Aug 28, 2019
Download the full version here. Do foodies need to know about capitalism? Everybody trying to change the food system—farmers, farmworkers,…
The Principles of Agroecology: Towards Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food Systems
Academic Publication | CIDSE | Jun 18, 2019
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Los Principios de la Agroecologia: Hacia Sistemas Alimentarios Justos, Resilientes, y Sostenibles
Academic Publication | CIDSE | Jun 18, 2019
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Can Food as a Commons Advance Food Sovereignty?
Academic Publication | | Dec 20, 2018
Please take a look at Food First’s chapter in Routledge’s Handbook of Food as a Commons. This chapter was co-authored by Food…
Pathways for the Amplification of Agroecology
Academic Publication | Clara Nicholls and Miguel Altieri | Aug 13, 2018
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Taking on the C-Word
Academic Publication | Teresa M. Mares | May 10, 2018
This book review was originally published by the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. What role does love…
Book Review: The reproach of hunger: food, justice, and money in the twenty-first century, by David Rieff Eric Holt-Giménez
Academic Publication | | Oct 13, 2016
BOOK REVIEW / COMPTE RENDU DE LIVRE The reproach of hunger: food, justice, and money in the twenty-first century,…
Seed laws, certification and standardization: outlawing informal seed systems in the Global South
Academic Publication | Tamara Wattnem | Mar 17, 2016
A series of relatively new seed laws are becoming novel mechanisms of accumulation by dispossession in agriculture. Many researchers have…
Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? Introduction to land grabbing and resistance
Academic Publication | Ben White, Ian Scoones, Marc Edelman, Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras and Wendy Wolford | May 22, 2015
The Journal of Peasant Studies, 42:3-4, 467-488.
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