Agroecology and Food System Transformation

摘要

With this issue, the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture becomes Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (ASFS). We are inaugurating this change with a special issue devoted to defining the focus of agroecology, and pointing out ways that it must leadthe way in transforming food systems to sustainability, from the seed and the soil, all the way to the table. Guest editors V. Ernesto Mendez, Christopher Bacon, and Rose Cohen have done an excellent job of bringing together the transdisciplinary perspectives that have helped form our understanding of agroecology, how it promotes change through participatory action in research and education, and why it is important that agroecology lead the way in bringing sustainability to all people and all parts ofour global food system. The ecological foundations are clear, but the social and political components where social change is most needed, are much less so. This special issue has brought together agroecologists from multiple perspectives, locations, andexperiences, but all with a common goal of linking research, practice, and social change in truly transformative ways.