In a world of growing complexity and uncertainty, the security of food supplies is threatened
by many factors. These include multiple processes of global change (eg climate change …

Intensive livestock farming has raised issues about environmental impacts and food security
during the past 20 years. As a consequence, there is a strong social demand for sustainable …

Family farms play an important role in the European countryside, yet their number is steadily
declining. This raises the question of what conveys resilience to family farms, ie the ability to …

Taking departure in the theory of resilience in social-ecological systems, we present an
analysis and discussion of how resilience theory can be applied to agroecosystems …

This paper examines the concept of resilience and its increasing use in the face of both
economic uncertainty and climate change, and applies it to farm management. Resilience is …

The processes underlying environmental, economic, and social unsustainability derive in
part from the food system. Building sustainable food systems has become a predominating …

There are numerous studies and publications about sustainable agriculture. Many papers
argue that sustainable agriculture is necessary, and analyze how this goal could be …

When first published in 2008, The New Peasantries revolutionized our ways of thinking of
what constitutes the peasantry and repeasantization. It showed how a new era of empire …

This review by a multidisciplinary team maps key components and emerging connections
within the intellectual landscape of agroecology. We attempt to extend and preview …

This paper examines the concept of resilience and its increasing application within rural
studies in the face of both economic uncertainty and ecological crisis. Two approaches to …