Global Food Security· 2026Q1
Unlocking the agroecological transition in intensive farming systems
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A system-wide approach is essential to overcome lock-ins and enable the agroecological transition in intensive farming systems, challenging narratives that pit producers against consumers or top-down against bottom-up strategies.
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Key points
- Intensive farming systems require a system-wide transformation due to high costs.
- Simultaneously addressing lock-ins across the entire food system is essential for agroecological transition.
- The paper challenges narratives that create opposition between producers/consumers and top-down/bottom-up approaches.
- A roadmap is proposed to facilitate a transformative agroecological transition.
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Abstract
A system-wide transformation of dominant intensive farming and food systems is strongly needed to address their high sanitary, environmental, and social costs. Here we argue that simultaneously addressing lock-ins across the entire food system is essential to enable such a transformation. We challenge the dominant narratives that pit producers against consumers or top-down policymaking against bottom-up, community-led approaches, while overlooking the micro- and macro-level pressures they all face. We identify the major lock-ins hindering the agroecological transition across the food systems of advanced economies, and propose a roadmap for facilitating a true, transformative transition.
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