The spring-summer 2024 issue is devoted largely to a set of commentaries prepared by more than two dozen participants in the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Their individual and collective voices challenge the hegemony of the dominant global industrial food system. However, they acknowledge that there are significant philosophical and pragmatic divisions between progressives in the agroecology “movement” that need to be openly addressed before significant progress can be made in building a cohesive movement. 

Reflecting ashared vision of an agroecological future, the cover for this issue features a work by farmer Ryan Tenney from hi sSankara Farm Agroecology Zine. According to Ryan, “This painting is a view into a Black Agrarian future, with geodesic domes and autonomous microtractor out in the fields behind two youth cultivating the soil, planting seeds for the future. The red, black and green hues signal a post-colonial ecology.”