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Chair in Agroecology and Food Systems

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(Re)productive agri-food systems

We understand agrifood systems as productive and reproductive spaces in which different activities defend the reproduction of life as their main function. By producing healthy food using sustainable farming practices, we are able to guarantee the reproduction of the peasant system, citizens, and agroecosystems. We therefore understand agro-ecosystems as socio-ecological systems which have close interlinkages between society, individuals, and nature.

For social transformation towards Food Sovereignty

Our research is committed to Food Sovereignty as the political framework to address the socio-environmental unsustainability of the global agri-food system and guarantee the human right to food. We work for social transformation and a living countryside through the promotion of alternative food systems which make rational use of natural resources and address unequal power relations. The feminist perspective crosscuts our research practices, aimed at supporting agroecological transitions towards Food Sovereignty.

Through agroecological governance, knowledge and practices

We study the practices, knowledge and governance settings and institutions that support and tailor agroecological systems. Through the collaboration with administrations and civil society organisations, we participate in the design of public policies in both urban and rural contexts, aiming at the agroecological transition. Technical and scientific approaches are complemented with local, traditional and indigenous agri-food knowledge and practices, from the land to the table, that we aim at eliciting and integrating into decision-making.

In the context of Global Environmental Change

Our research focuses in a multiscale analysis of global environmental changes and the underlying drivers that may threaten the interlinked social and ecological dimensions of the agri-food systems. We explore present trends and future transformation pathways, looking at the knowledge systems, institutions and strategies managed by small and agroecological producers and entrepreneurs along the agri-food chain to reduce vulnerability and adapt to such changes.

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