Multiple crises have disrupted food systems around the world. The shocks induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with increased energy prices and shortages of fertilizers and agricultural inputs, have affected farmers everywhere. By applying inductive, qualitative, and comparative research approaches, this study investigates the impact of shocks and crises on...

This study presents an approach to assess agroecology at village level through focus group discussions with village committees and district extension agents. This approach is intended as an alternative to resources-intensive assessment methods, covering larger areas and providing rapid yet empirical evidences for policy and practice. It is based on...

Agroecological farming emerges among approaches for managing crop pests including the “True” fruit fly (Diptera, Tephritidae).  This baseline interviews and field experiments in Eastern Central Tanzania was conducted to determine farmers’ perception on the approach and verify its socio-economic performance in cucurbit crop production. The performance of small-scale cucurbit farming in...

Based on colonial capitalist logics, global biosecurity strategies have long relied upon downstream measures of surveillance and control to reduce disease burden and address the rising risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). One Health aims to address this through what it describes as a systems approach, yet in failing to grapple...

Corporate actors in capitalist food systems continue to consolidate ownership of the means of production in ever fewer hands, posing a critical barrier to food sovereignty and to an agroecological transition. Using a case study approach, the journal article evaluates the successes and failures of two campaigns for agrarian reform in...

The recent acceleration of the financialization of nature, in which a farmer’s role as a good custodian of land has shifted from a moral obligation to an economic opportunity, has expanded capitalism’s spheres of accumulation beyond agricultural commodities to the very building blocks they rely upon water, carbon, and biodiversity. This...