Territorial Scaling of Agroecology: at the Intersection of Agri-food Sustainability Transitions and Rural Revitalization

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The discussion around global environmental issues such as climate change, as well as changes in societal expectations towards the role of agriculture and food production, have focused attention on sustainability transitions in agri-food systems. In parallel, there is a growing recognition of the potential of small-scale, agroecological and territorially integrated farming and food systems to help transition towards more sustainable more sustainable forms of production. Redesigning local and regional agri-food systems according to agroecological principles also holds the potential to increase the resilience of farming systems and rural communities and create linkages among agri-food system actors—from producers to consumers—based on fairer and more democratic relationships. This paper employs concepts from the field of sustainability transitions, together with the notion of territorialization, to discuss opportunities and barriers to scale agroecology at the territorial level and suggest directions for future research and practice.