The growing number of ecological, health, economic and social crises situations are compounding and are based on an exceptionally complex political reality that demands a systemic and holistic perspective.

This first article of a three-part contribution to Agroecology Now presents the current moment as a crisis in capitalism that demands systemic and structural responses based on solidarity and feminist economics. The article lays the foundations for agroecology as a new organizing paradigm for food systems that holds the key to preventing the collapse of our living systems as we know them.

Photo: Assembling of organic food baskets delivered to families subject to food insecurity during the pandemic (Source: AS-PTA)