The sustainability of food chains is an issue consumers, policy makers, researchers, food
producers and suppliers are increasingly interested in. This interest is also confirmed by the …

Despite the increasingly widespread use of the term agroecology by farmers, scientists,
agrarian social movements, and lawmakers, the definition of the concept is still the object of …

Our analysis situates the current COVID-19 induced food crisis within a longer-term
historical perspective on policy responses to past food crises. We argue that the legacies left …

This article discusses the economic dimensions of agroecological farming systems in
Europe. It firstly theoretically elaborates the reasons why, and under what conditions …

Over the last decades, the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the
conventional agri-food system has and continues to be contested within both academic and …

For many years, studies of peasants and pastoralists have run in parallel, creating mutual
blind-spots. This article argues that, despite contrasting research traditions and conceptual …

The commonplace notion of extractivism relates to the production of value through physically
extractive processes (mining, oil extraction, certain kinds of agriculture, etc.) where value …

Although China is experiencing rapid urbanization process, village is still the basic socio-
economic unit in rural China and could be seen as the cell of the rural system. A profound …

This book fills a gap in the literature by setting food security in the context of evolving global
food governance. Today's food system generates hunger alongside of food waste …

This paper examines agroecology within Europe, its dynamics, its position within a broader
politico-economic framework and its political significance. It argues that agroecology is …