This paper argues that input-intensity and a lack of democratic control over the conditions for
advanced technology adoption indicates that low-tech approaches, despite generating …

Expanding and defending women's rights and eradicating women's oppression have
become key to La Via Campesina and its conceptualization and practice of food sovereignty …

During the past three decades, the Pisque watershed in Ecuador's Northern Andes has
become the country's principal export-roses producing area. Recently, a new boom of local …

In this article, we offer a contribution to the ongoing study of food by advancing a conceptual
framework and interdisciplinary research agenda–what we term “food system resilience”. In …

Consumers and social movement activists have been the driving force to create alternative,
sustainable food systems over the past 100 years. Although larger agribusiness market …

There is concern that agrobiodiversity is being irreversibly eroded in the face of agricultural
industrialization. While academic and policy debates stress loss of landraces, little attention …

Food sovereignty, as defined by the comprehensive definition offered in the 2007 Nyéléni
Forum, encompasses essential action lines for transforming a food system based on food …

In agroecology, women's activities, from seed saving to activism, are well documented. Less
well described are the factors that support and/or hinder women's participation in …

This paper applies the concept of Hybrid Governance to the analysis of the GASAP (Groupe
d'Achats Solidaires de l'Agriculture Paysanne), a solidarity-based producers–consumers …

Food systems transformations require coherent policies and improved understandings of the
drivers and institutional dynamics that shape (un) sustainable food systems outcomes. In this …