An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food Systems

In recent years, the transition to sustainability at a food systems’ scale has drawn major attention both from the scientific and political arenas. Agroecology has become central to such discussions, while impressive efforts have been made to conceptualize the agroecology scaling process. It has thu...

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Autores: López-García, Daniel, González de Molina, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Sustainable food systems
Agroecological transitions
Political agroecology
Agroecology scaling
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spelling An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food SystemsLópez-García, DanielGonzález de Molina, ManuelSustainable food systemsAgroecological transitionsPolitical agroecologyAgroecology scalingIn recent years, the transition to sustainability at a food systems’ scale has drawn major attention both from the scientific and political arenas. Agroecology has become central to such discussions, while impressive efforts have been made to conceptualize the agroecology scaling process. It has thus become necessary to apply the concept of agroecology transitions to the scale of food systems and in different “real-world” contexts. Scaling local agroecology experiences of production, distribution, and consumption, which are often disconnected and/or disorganized, also reveals emergent research gaps. A critical review was performed in order to establish a transdisciplinary dialogue between both political agroecology and the literature on sustainable food systems. The objective was to build insights into how to advance towards Agroecology-based Local Agri-food Systems (ALAS). Our review unveils emergent questions such as: how to overcome the metabolic rift related to segregated activities along the food chain, how to feed cities sustainably, and how they should relate to the surrounding territories, which social subjects should drive such transitions, and which governance arrangements would be needed. The paper argues in favor of the re-construction of food metabolisms, territorial flows, plural subjects and (bottom-up) governance assemblages, placing life at the center of the food system and going beyond the rural–urban divide.This research was funded by the Third Sector grants of the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, call 2021. This work was also supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under Grant RTI2018-093970-B-C31; Junta de Andalucía [Andalusian Regional Government] under Grant UPO-1260167Peer reviewedMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteMinisterio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)Junta de AndalucíaMinisterio de Transición Ecológica (España)López-García, Daniel [0000-0003-2265-880X]202320232021info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/295994reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/RTI2018-093970-B-C31https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158443Noinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/2959942026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food Systems
title An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food Systems
spellingShingle An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food Systems
López-García, Daniel
Sustainable food systems
Agroecological transitions
Political agroecology
Agroecology scaling
title_short An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food Systems
title_full An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food Systems
title_fullStr An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food Systems
title_full_unstemmed An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food Systems
title_sort An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food Systems
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv López-García, Daniel
González de Molina, Manuel
author López-García, Daniel
author_facet López-García, Daniel
González de Molina, Manuel
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author2 González de Molina, Manuel
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
Junta de Andalucía
Ministerio de Transición Ecológica (España)
López-García, Daniel [0000-0003-2265-880X]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Sustainable food systems
Agroecological transitions
Political agroecology
Agroecology scaling
topic Sustainable food systems
Agroecological transitions
Political agroecology
Agroecology scaling
description In recent years, the transition to sustainability at a food systems’ scale has drawn major attention both from the scientific and political arenas. Agroecology has become central to such discussions, while impressive efforts have been made to conceptualize the agroecology scaling process. It has thus become necessary to apply the concept of agroecology transitions to the scale of food systems and in different “real-world” contexts. Scaling local agroecology experiences of production, distribution, and consumption, which are often disconnected and/or disorganized, also reveals emergent research gaps. A critical review was performed in order to establish a transdisciplinary dialogue between both political agroecology and the literature on sustainable food systems. The objective was to build insights into how to advance towards Agroecology-based Local Agri-food Systems (ALAS). Our review unveils emergent questions such as: how to overcome the metabolic rift related to segregated activities along the food chain, how to feed cities sustainably, and how they should relate to the surrounding territories, which social subjects should drive such transitions, and which governance arrangements would be needed. The paper argues in favor of the re-construction of food metabolisms, territorial flows, plural subjects and (bottom-up) governance assemblages, placing life at the center of the food system and going beyond the rural–urban divide.
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