Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems: 10th Anniversary Collection
Celebrating 10 years of Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
Ten years ago we opened Volume 37, Issue 1, with an editorial that announced the change of the name of the journal from the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture to Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems-ASFS (Gliessman 2013). For the past 10 years, our journal has been at the forefront of scholarly publishing in the “Agroecology Movement.” It has been our goal to help define what this movement is about, to advance scholarship at the cutting edge of transdisciplinary research, and to learn with and from peasants, Indigenous peoples, smallholders, and workers across the food system who are leading the way in transforming food systems worldwide toward justice and sustainability. At the time of the name change, the ecological foundations for agroecology had received much scientific attention, but the social and political components—where change is most needed—remained ill-defined and largely ignored by the Western scientific establishment. It became our journal’s goal to link research, practice, and social change.
To celebrate 10 years of ASFS, in this special collection, we have gathered some of our most-read and most-cited papers from the decade, as well as several “editors picks” we feel exemplify the agroecological focus the journal promotes. The collection will be available open access for the next six months, and we hope you will read and share the articles, reviews, and editorials with your colleagues, students, co-organizers, and more. We also invite you to consider contributing to ASFS in the future, as we look to continuously advance agroecology scholarship rooted in a commitment to transformative food systems change and in solidarity with diverse communities who advance agroecology every day in thinking and practice.