From agriculture in the city to an agroecological urbanism : the transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology

Abstract

In this article we capture three things at once: the reason for this special issue of UAM on Urban Agroecology, the thinking behind the 8th Annual Conference of the AESOP Sustainable Food Planning (SFP) group (Coventry, 2017) and the core mission of the International Forum for an Agroecological Urbanism. The Forum and the Magazine will be launched at the AESOP SFP conference whose theme this year is “Reimagining food planning, building resourcefulness: Food movements, insurgent planning and heterodox economics