Category: Peer-reviewed articles
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Knowledge Democratization Approaches for Food Systems Transformation
Current narrow views of what constitutes evidence have left blind spots in food system decision-making. Yet, alternative ways of facilitating the production and exchange of transdisciplinary knowledge enable key lessons for more equitable and informed policy processes.
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Bottom-up Attempts at Agroecological Transitions in China
The study explores bottom-up agroecological transitions in two Chinese villages, Sanliwan and Sanggang. Sanliwan faces environmental degradation, lack of markets, need for agroecological technical extension, and farmer atomization. In contrast, Sanggang successfully navigates these through farmer organization, efficient resource utilization, improved technology, and market development. The study calls for further research on top-down responses to…
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Community seed network in an era of climate change
A study analyzed maize diversity in Yucatán, Mexico, tracking changes amid climatic shifts. It revealed community-level conservation and farmers’ agrobiodiversity management strategies played crucial roles in recovery and resilience to climate change disturbances, particularly high rainfall events.
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Improvisatory Activist Scholarship
I define improvisatory activist scholarship as attempts to disrupt commonly-held meanings in research through the skilled negotiation of unexpected circumstances and through attention to the circulation of power among collaborators. Metaphors from the dancing of contact improvisation (CI) serve as a bridge to highlight improvisational aspects of participatory action research (PAR).
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Indicators of Land Insecurity for Urban Farms
A 2018 study, based on surveys with 56 urban farm managers in California, finds that urban farms displaying greater land security receive more financial and institutional backing, and are generally located in economically prosperous census tracts.
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Perennial Grains for Africa
Perennial grain crops have been proposed as a transformative approach to agriculture. Replacing annual staple crops with perennialized growth types of the same crops could provide environmental services, improve labour efficiency and weather resilience, reduce seed costs and produce livestock fodder or fuelwood production. Yet, the technologies and science for agricultural development in Africa have…
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Perennial Grain Crops in the West Soudanian Savanna of Mali
We study the future possibility of integrating perennial grains into Malian farming systems from the perspective of agroecology, and more specifically using a gendered space approach. We interviewed 72 farmers across the sorghum-growing region of Mali. We found that perennial grains offer a vision for transforming human relations with nature that mirrors the resource sharing…
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Agroecological and Social Transformations for Coexistence with Semi-Aridity in Brazil
This article explores whether a shift in development paradigm resulted in coexistence with semi-aridity for residents of the Semi-Arid region of Brazil (SAB). If so, which strategies contributed and which conditions facilitated it?
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Ratooning and perennial staple crops in Malawi
Here we review ratooning, as well as the historic role of perennial staple crops in Malawi. Ratooning is a method of harvesting a crop which leaves the roots and the lower parts of the plant uncut to give the ratoon or the stubble crop. This review is completed with interviews with Malawian farmers.
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Manejo de agroambientes para la resiliencia agroecológica al cambio climático
Las comunidades campesinas en México poseen, por un lado, un acervo importante en cuanto a la agro-diversidad y al conocimiento indígena sobre el manejo del ambiente y la conservación de los recursos naturales; por el otro lado, registran experiencias de prácticas y tecnologías alternativas y novedosas que han sido adoptadas y adaptadas a lo largo…
