Academic interest in food has increased over the last decade with heated debates over
organic agriculture, local food, and the globalization of the food economy. While much of this …

Justifiably concerned about power dynamics between researchers and participants in
participatory research, much of the literature proposes guidelines for including participant …

With a vast majority of the land in the Driftless Region of the Midwestern United States
dedicated to agricultural production, the future of farming has significant economic, social …

The word agroecology has come a long way Since it was coined almost one century ago
as an academic term, it has crossed into a wide variety of social worlds (Doré and Bellon …

Abstract If Farming Systems Research is to truly embrace sustainability as the overall context
of its mission, then the inclusion of ethics (and especially systemic ethics) is an imperative …

This paper examines the use of the metaphorical terms 'mosaic'and 'tapestry'in
conceptualizing the structure of spatial organization over more than a century of geographic …

Critics of modern agriculture decry the dominance of monocultural landscapes and look to
multifunctionality as a desirable alternative that facilitates the production of public goods. In …

Background: Transforming food systems is necessary to address the global issues of severe
biodiversity loss, hunger, and malnutrition as well as the consequences of the rapidly …

Even though worldwide research and teaching in Agroecology blossomed in the 1980s, until
recently, the development of Agroecology in China has been constrained by technical …

This article deals with a group of researchers involved in Participatory Action Research
projects on biodiversity and who volunteered to take part in a “storytelling” experiment …