This special issue, published in the Journal of Agriculture and Human Values, focuses on the role of popular education, critical pedagogy and adult education – or learning for transformation – in social movements for food sovereignty, agroecology and food justice. Many of the papers are now published on-line – see below.
The articles are available via the links below (or here) for those with subscriptions or you can contact the authors to receive pdf versions via email.
Introduction to the symposium on critical adult education in food movements: learning for transformation in and beyond food movements—the why, where, how and the what next?
By: Anderson, C. R., Binimelis, R., Pimbert, M. P., & Rivera-Ferre, M. G.
Available here.
Transformative Agroecology Learning in Europe: Building Consciousness, Skills and Collective Capacity for Food Sovereignty
By: Anderson, C.R., Maughan, C. and M. Pimbert
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9894-0 (Open access, free download)
Farming for change: experiences developing and implementing a farmer-engaged integrated curriculum on agroecology, nutrition, climate change and social equity in Malawi and Tanzania
By: Bezner Kerr, R. et al.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-09906-x and download here.
Multi-actor networks and innovation niches: university training for local Agroecological Dynamization
By: López-García, D., Calvet-Mir, L., Di Masso, M. & Espluga, J.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9863-7
Teaching the territory: agroecological pedagogy and popular movements.
By: McCune, N. & Sánchez, M.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9853-9
What’s wrong with permaculture design courses? Brazilian lessons for agroecological movement-building in Canada
By: Massicotte, M. J., & Kelly-Bisson, C.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9870-8
Food sovereignty education across the Americas: multiple origins, converging movements
By: Meek, D., Bradley, K., Ferguson, B., Hoey, L., Morales, H., Rosset, P. & Tarlau, R.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-017-9780-1
Images of work, images of defiance: engaging migrant farm worker voice through community-based arts
By: Perry, J. A.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9861-9
Working list of related readings on learning in food movements
If you have other literature to suggest for this reference list, please send a full reference and a copy of the PDF if possible to Colin Anderson at colin.anderson@uvm.edu
Angulo Sobalvarro, J. A., & Luna Delgado, Y. G. (2019). Proceso de aprendizaje agroecológico desde la práctica de la meliponicultura: una experiencia de campesinos en Santa Lucía, Nicaragua. La Calera, 19(33), 81-87. https://doi.org/10.5377/calera.v19i33.8845
Barbosa, L. P. (2015). Educación, Resistencia y Movimientos Sociales: la práxis educativo-política de los Sin Tierra y de los Zapatistas. LIBRUNAM
Braun, J. A., & Bogdan, E. (2016). Transitioning Towards Sustainable Food and Farming: Interactions Between Learning and Practice in Community Spaces. . In C. R. Anderson, J. Brady, & C. Levkoe (Eds.), Conversations in Food Studies. University of Manitoba Press.
Camacho, R. S., Sobreiro Filho, J., Sobreiro, V. A., & Mariano, E. B. (2016). Evaluation of the relationship between education and sustainability in peasant movements: The experience of the National Education Program in Agrarian Reform. Eval Program Plann, 54, 152-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2015.07.009
Chambers, R. (1990). Farmer-first: a practical paradigm for the third agriculture. In M. A. a. S. B. H. Altieri (Ed.), Agroecology and small farm development, (pp. 237-244). CRC Press.
Chollett, D. L. (2014). The Native American Organic Garden: Using Service Learning as a Site of Resistance. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, 36, 93-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12037
Code, J. M. (2018). Innovations in Agroecology Education. Journal of Education, 197(3), 34-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022057418782353
Coolsaet, B. (2016). Towards an agroecology of knowledges: Recognition, cognitive justice and farmers’ autonomy in France. Journal of Rural Studies, 47, 165-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.07.012
Cristofari, H., Girard, N., & Magda, D. (2018). How agroecological farmers develop their own practices: a framework to describe their learning processes. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42(7), 777-795. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2018.1448032
Crosley, K. L. (2013). Advancing the Boundaries of Urban Environmental Education through the Food Justice Movement. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education.
David, C., & Bell, M. M. (2018). New challenges for education in agroecology. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42(6), 612-619. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2018.1426670
David, C., & Bell, M. M. (2018). New challenges for education in agroecology. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42(6), 612-619. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2018.1426670
Fábos, A., Gerber, R., Gulaid, H., & Henderson, S. (2011). Linking local action and global change. Exploring food activism in Worcester, MA through experiential learning. Appetite, 56, 527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2010.11.195
Francis, C., Østergaard, E., & Nicolaysen, A. M. (2015). Learning Agroecology through Involvement and Reflection. In C. M. B. E. V. Méndez, R. Cohen, & S. Gliessman (Ed.), Agroecology: A Transdisciplinary, Participatory and Action-oriented Approach (pp. 73).
Francis, C., Breland, T. A., Østergaard, E., Lieblein, G., & Morse, S. (2012). Phenomenon-Based Learning in Agroecology: A Prerequisite for Transdisciplinarity and Responsible Action. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 120911083006009. https://doi.org/10.1080/10440046.2012.717905
Francis, C. A., Jordan, N., Porter, P., Breland, T. A., Lieblein, G., Salomonsson, L., Sriskandarajah, N., Wiedenhoeft, M., DeHaan, R., Braden, I., & Langer, V. (2011). Innovative Education in Agroecology: Experiential Learning for a Sustainable Agriculture. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 30, 226-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352689.2011.554497
Galt, R., Clark, S., & Parr, D. (2012). Engaging Values in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Education: Toward an Explicitly Values-Based Pedagogical Approach. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 43-54. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2012.023.006
Galt, R. E., Parr, D., Van Soelen Kim, J., Beckett, J., Lickter, M., & Ballard, H. (2012). Transformative food systems education in a land-grant college of agriculture: the importance of learner-centered inquiries. Agriculture and Human Values, 30, 129-142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-012-9384-8
Goris, M. B., Silva Lopes, I., Verschoor, G., Behagel, J., & Botelho, M. I. V. (2021). Popular education, youth and peasant agroecology in Brazil. Journal of Rural Studies, 87, 12-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.08.003
Guthman, J. (2008). Bringing good food to others: investigating the subjects of alternative food practice. Cultural Geographies, 15, 431-447. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474008094315
Holt-Giménez, E. (2001). Scaling up sustainable agriculture: lessons from the Campesino a Campesino movement LEISA Magazine, 3(3), 27-29. http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/magazines/global/lessons-in-scaling-up/scalingup-sustainableagriculture/at_download/article_pdf
Holt-Giménez, E. (2006). Campesino a campesino: voices from Latin America’s farmer to farmer movement for sustainable agriculture. Food First Books.
Horner, C. E., Morse, C., Carpenter, N., Nordstrom, K. L., Faulkner, J. W., Mares, T., Kinnebrew, E., Caswell, M., Izzo, V., Méndez, V. E., Lewins, S. A., & McCune, N. (2021). Cultivating Pedagogy for Transformative Learning: A Decade of Undergraduate Agroecology Education. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.751115
Kolmans, E. (2006). Construyendo procesos ‘de Campesino a Campesino’. ESPIGAS y Pan para el Mundo.
Koman Ilel. (2018). Multimedia Peasant School. Retrieved September 15 from http://agroecologia.espora.org
La Via Campesina. (2017). Toolkit: Peasant Agroecology Schools and the Peasant-to- Peasant Method of Horizontal Learning. https://foodfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/TOOLKIT_agroecology_Via-Campesina-1.pdf
Levkoe, C. Z. (2006). Learning Democracy Through Food Justice Movements. Agriculture and Human Values, 23(1), 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-005-5871-5
Lieblein, G., Breland, T. A., Francis, C., & Østergaard, E. (2012). Agroecology Education: Action-oriented Learning and Research. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 18, 27-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/1389224x.2012.638781
Lieblein, G., Østergaard, E., & Francis, C. (2004). Becoming an Agroecologist through Action Education. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2(3), 147-153. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2004.9684574
López-García, D., Calvet-Mir, L., Di Masso, M., & Espluga, J. (2018). Multi-actor networks and innovation niches: university training for local Agroecological Dynamization. Agriculture and Human Values, 36(3), 567-579. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9863-7
Machín Sosa, B., Roque Jaime, A.M.; Ávila Lozano, D., Rosset, P. (2010). Revolución Agroecológica: el Movimiento Campesino a Campesino de la ANAP en Cuba. . Asociación Nacional de Agricultores Pequeños y La Vía Campesina.
Massicotte, M.-J., & Kelly-Bisson, C. (2018). What’s wrong with permaculture design courses? Brazilian lessons for agroecological movement-building in Canada. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9870-8
McCune, N., Rosset, P. M., Salazar, T. C., Saldívar Moreno, A., & Morales, H. (2017). Mediated territoriality: rural workers and the efforts to scale out agroecology in Nicaragua. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 44(2), 354-376. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2016.1233868
McCune, N., & Sánchez, M. (2018). Teaching the territory: agroecological pedagogy and popular movements. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9853-9
Meek, D. (2015). Learning as territoriality: the political ecology of education in the Brazilian landless workers’ movement. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 42(6), 1179-1200. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2014.978299
Meek, D., Bradley, K., Ferguson, B., Hoey, L., Morales, H., Rosset, P., & Tarlau, R. (2017). Food sovereignty education across the Americas: multiple origins, converging movements. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-017-9780-1
Meek, D., & Simonian, L. T. L. (2016). Transforming space and society? The political ecology of education in the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement’s Jornada de Agroecología. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(3), 513-532. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816667073
Meek, D., & Tarlau, R. (2015). Critical Food Systems Education and the Question of Race. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2015.054.021
Meek, D., & Tarlau, R. (2016). Critical food systems education (CFSE): educating for food sovereignty. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 40(3), 237-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2015.1130764
Migliorini, P., & Lieblein, G. (2016). Facilitating Transformation and Competence Development in Sustainable Agriculture University Education: An Experiential and Action Oriented Approach. Sustainability, 8(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/su8121243
Montenegro, M. (2014). A lighthouse for urban agriculture: university, community and redefining expertise in the food system. . Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 14(1).
Muñoz, A., N. McCune and J. Reardon. (2014). Agroecological Formación For Food Sovereignty. Z Communications. . Retrieved September 15, 2018, from https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/agroecological-formacion-for-food-sovereignty/
Najjar, D., Spaling, H., & Sinclair, A. J. (2013). Learning about sustainability and gender through Farmer Field Schools in the Taita Hills, Kenya. International Journal of Educational Development, 33(5), 466-475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2012.06.004
Nicholls, C. I., & Altieri, M. A. (2018). Pathways for the amplification of agroecology. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42(10), 1170-1193. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2018.1499578
Østergaard, E., Lieblein, G., Breland, T. A., & Francis, C. (2010). Students Learning Agroecology: Phenomenon-Based Education for Responsible Action. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 16, 23-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/13892240903533053
Perry, J. A. (2018). Images of work, images of defiance: engaging migrant farm worker voice through community-based arts. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9861-9
Pimbert, M. P. (2008). Towards Food Sovereignty: Reclaiming Autonomous Food Systems. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/pimbert−michel−to-wards−food−sovereignty−reclaiming−autonomous−food−systems
Rosset, P., Val, V., Barbosa, L. P., & McCune, N. (2019). Agroecology and La Via Campesina II. Peasant agroecology schools and the formation of a sociohistorical and political subject. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 43(7-8), 895-914. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2019.1617222
Rosset, P. M., Machin Sosa, B., Roque Jaime, A. M., & Ávila Lozano, D. R. (2011). The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba: social process methodology in the construction of sustainable peasant agriculture and food sovereignty. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 38, 161-191.
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Schneider, F., Fry, P., Ledermann, T., & Rist, S. (2009). Social Learning Processes in Swiss Soil Protection—The ‘From Farmer – To Farmer’ Project. Human Ecology, 37(4), 475-489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-009-9262-1
Schwendler, S. F., & Thompson, L. A. (2017). An education in gender and agroecology in Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement. Gender and Education, 29(1), 100-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2016.1221596
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