Anxieties around the relationship between livestock agriculture and the environmental crisis
are driving sustained discussions about the place of beef and dairy farming in a sustainable …

Farm livestock animals remain something of an enigma to the rural sustainability debate. A
standardised view of livestock has emerged whereby farm animals are simply'there'in the …

Many beef farm systems in Irish and some global contexts have economic and
environmental traits that threaten their future sustainability. In this context, the concept of Just …

Multiple anthropogenic challenges threaten nature's contributions to human well-being.
Agricultural expansion and conventional intensification are degrading biodiversity and …

The challenge to produce enough food is more urgent than ever. We argue that the
dominant food regime has responded to this challenge by a 'narrow'ecological …

The focus of international scholarship on the contemporary transformation of organic food
and farming has been a rather narrow preoccupation with the 'conventionalisation thesis' …

Many of the chapters in this book have been about understanding the interface between
agriculture in the British landscape, and how to conserve Nature. Indeed, the extent to which …

Agroecology and regenerative agriculture have plenty in common: soil and ecosystem
restoration, reliance on biological interactions and ecosystem services, integration of …

Simple Summary The global rise in demand for animal products for human consumption
may well have an increasingly significant impact upon the natural environment, human …

Agroecological transition corresponds to a systemic transformation consisting in the
ecologisation of agriculture and food. It concerns multiple stakeholders (farmers, supply …