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“Whose demand?” The co-construction of markets, demand and gender in development-oriented crop breeding
Advancing women’s empowerment and gender equality in agriculture is a recognised development goal, also within crop breeding. Increasingly, breeding...
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Digesting agriculture development: nutrition-oriented development and the political ecology of rice–body relations in India
Nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) has emerged as a major development paradigm that works to diversify crops and diets throughout the Global South...
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Agroecology’s moral vision
What is agroecology’s moral vision, and what are the larger metaphysical, even theological, implications of it? Even though agroecology as a field...
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Intensified rice production negatively impacts plant biodiversity, diet, lifestyle and quality of life: transdisciplinary and gendered research in the Middle Senegal River Valley
A major programme of irrigated rice extension in the Middle Senegal River Valley has further limited the river’s natural flooding in the floodplain...
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Decolonizing agriculture in the United States: Centering the knowledges of women and people of color to support relational farming practices
While the agricultural knowledges and practices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and women have shaped agriculture in the US, these...
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Forging Alliances: Fanon, Cabral, and Contemporary Feminist Epistemology
Chapter 5 takes stock of the outcomes of the analyses of the previous chapters. It assesses some of the main issues entailed in adopting the...
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Farming for Change: Develo** a Participatory Curriculum on Agroecology, Nutrition, Climate Change and Social Equity in Malawi and Tanzania
How to engage farmers that have limited formal education is at the foundation of environmentally-sound and equitable agricultural development. Yet...
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AFHVS 2020 presidential address: pushing beyond the boundaries
In this 2020 AFHVS Presidential Address, Molly Anderson suggests that we must push beyond the boundaries imposed by our training, institutional...
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Partnerships in pandemics: tracing power relations in community engaged scholarship in food systems during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically disrupted food and educational systems, laying bare institutional inadequacies and structural inequalities. While...
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What’s Wrong with Permaculture Design courses? Brazilian Lessons for Agroecological Movement-Building in Canada
This paper focuses on the centrality of permaculture design courses (PDCs) as the principal sociopolitical strategy of the permaculture community in...
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Multi-actor Networks and Innovation Niches: University Training for Local Agroecological Dynamization
The global environmental and social-economic crises of industrialized agriculture have led to the emergence of agroecology as an alternative approach...
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Observing farm plots to increase attentiveness and cooperation with nature: a case study in Belgium
In intensive European agricultural areas, the control of weeds and wildlife within plots is of great importance. Yet, we can observe in many farming...
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Teaching the Territory: Agroecological Pedagogy and Popular Movements
This contribution traces the parallel development of two distinct approaches to peasant agroecological education: the peasant-to-peasant horizontal...
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Bodies, Environments, and Race
For at least 20 years, scholars of Latin America have argued that ideas about culture and environment have been critical components of racial...
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Bodies, Environments, and Race
For at least 20 years, scholars of Latin America have argued that ideas about culture and environment have been critical components of racial...
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Seeing copiapósols: anthropogenic soils, strategic unknowing, and emergent taxonomies in northern Chile
In recent decades, anthropogenic soils have become so ubiquitous that for some authors they should be taken as the “golden spike” signaling the start...
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Sociocultural tensions and wicked problems in sustainable agriculture education
Future practitioners of sustainable agriculture and agroecology must have the capacity to address the wicked problems in the food system to make...
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Crop Protection Between Sciences, Ethics and Societies: From Quick-Fix Ideal to Multiple Partial Solutions
Crop protection has a very long history during which new methods have been developed whilst, at the same time, the older ones have retained their...
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Applied Groundwork for a Practical Moral Code
We should take seriously Gert and Stevenson’s claim that philosophers in blind pursuit of their theories and principles are at risk of becoming...
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Philosophy of Science and Technology: A Personal Report
What follows is a summary of my work in the general philosophy and methodology of science and technology, as well as in the philosophy of some of...