Dr. Feliu López i Gelats is an environmental social scientist (PhD Environmental Science, 2010) trained in ecological economics and political ecology (MSc Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2004) and agroecology and rural development (MSc International University of Andalusia, 2005). At present he is aggregate professor and co-director of the Agroecology and Food Systems for Social Transformation at UVic-UCC. His fundamental research line is agroecology and a critical view to the agri-food system, with the key hypothesis that small production and small consumption go with more sustainable and fairer agri-food systems. He has devoted particular attention to examining the vulnerability and capacity of adaptation of smallholders to global environmental change, particularly pastoralists and beekeepers; examining the crisis of identity of agriculture and rural areas as a whole; examining the effectiveness of agroecological strategies, mainly community-based development strategies and employment of local traditional knowledge, to empower rural dwellers and small-scale producers; and finally examining the phenomenon of food waste.