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Entretantos Foundation, 47014 Valladolid, Spain

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Daniel López-García (PhD in Agroecology and sociology) is senior researcher at Fundación Entretantos. Working mainly through Participatory Action-Research, his research and consultancy activities have focused in Local Agroecological Dynamization, Agroecological Transitions, Sustainable Food Systems, Local Food Policies and Alternative Food Networks.

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Published: 28 July 2021 in Sustainability
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In recent years, the transition to sustainability at a food systems’ scale has drawn major attention both from the scientific and political arenas. Agroecology has become central to such discussions, while impressive efforts have been made to conceptualize the agroecology scaling process. It has thus become necessary to apply the concept of agroecology transitions to the scale of food systems and in different “real-world” contexts. Scaling local agroecology experiences of production, distribution, and consumption, which are often disconnected and/or disorganized, also reveals emergent research gaps. A critical review was performed in order to establish a transdisciplinary dialogue between both political agroecology and the literature on sustainable food systems. The objective was to build insights into how to advance towards Agroecology-based Local Agri-food Systems (ALAS). Our review unveils emergent questions such as: how to overcome the metabolic rift related to segregated activities along the food chain, how to feed cities sustainably, and how they should relate to the surrounding territories, which social subjects should drive such transitions, and which governance arrangements would be needed. The paper argues in favor of the re-construction of food metabolisms, territorial flows, plural subjects and (bottom-up) governance assemblages, placing life at the center of the food system and going beyond the rural–urban divide.

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Daniel López-García; Manuel González de Molina. An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food Systems. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8443 .

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Daniel López-García, Manuel González de Molina. An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food Systems. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (15):8443.

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Daniel López-García; Manuel González de Molina. 2021. "An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food Systems." Sustainability 13, no. 15: 8443.

Research article
Published: 14 June 2021 in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
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Urban food policies are increasingly considered central instruments for the promotion of food systems sustainability. As for their social sustainability, justice and equity are expected to play a central role, but gender equity remains not fully developed. In order to explore how gender relations can be addressed in the context of urban food policies in global North settings, in this paper we analyze the drafting process of the Urban Food Strategy of Zaragoza (Spain), self-identified as agroecology-oriented and which aimed at introducing a gender-sensitive approach. Based on empirical insights from this case study, we show that a lack of reflection and empirical development exists on the food policy-gender equity nexus, while at the same time there is an emergent body of specific proposals to be obtained from feminist and agroecological reflections on urban lifestyles. Indeed, our paper shows that agroecological and feminist approaches converge in claiming for the visibilization of food-related care work, and in its de-privatization through community-based infrastructures. The paper also unveils limiting conditions which may hinder the transformative potential of agroecology and feminism in urban food policy co-production processes, such as top-down approaches to food policy production, weak participatory processes, and gender-blind decisions among city officers.

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Marina Di Masso; Daniel López-García; Julia Clemente-Longás; Verónica García-García. Taking food out the private sphere? Addressing gender relations in urban food policy. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 2021, 1 -25.

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Marina Di Masso, Daniel López-García, Julia Clemente-Longás, Verónica García-García. Taking food out the private sphere? Addressing gender relations in urban food policy. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 2021; ():1-25.

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Marina Di Masso; Daniel López-García; Julia Clemente-Longás; Verónica García-García. 2021. "Taking food out the private sphere? Addressing gender relations in urban food policy." Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems , no. : 1-25.

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Published: 28 May 2021 in Sustainability
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One of the factors threatening the sustainability of rural territories is the hegemonic agro-industrial model, whose environmental and social impacts strongly limit rural life. Here, we want to call attention to the opportunities provided by alternative agri-food systems, based on agroecology and food sovereignty, as a cultural heritage to support sustainable local development. We have carried out exploratory research to draft the main agroecological initiatives in Spain, particularly those having explicit support or encouragement from public administrations. An on-line questionnaire (n = 40) was delivered, and in-depth interviews (n = 15) were carried out among a sample of people working in the Spanish agroecology sector (public and private). The results demonstrate how the recovery and promotion of traditional ecological knowledge can help to increase the capacity of the social-ecological systems to cope with shocks and disturbances and maintain long-term resilience. In addition, agroecological practices allow collective identities to emerge around the characteristics of the territory strengthening local life, placing the society-ecosystem coevolution at the center of local identity. In conclusion, although still a minority, we have showed how several types of policies conceiving agroecological practices as an intangible collective heritage, with significant transformative potential towards local sustainability, have already been implemented.

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Josep Espluga-Trenc; Laura Calvet-Mir; Daniel López-García; Marina Di Masso; Ariadna Pomar; Guillem Tendero. Local Agri-Food Systems as a Cultural Heritage Strategy to Recover the Sustainability of Local Communities. Insights from the Spanish Case. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6068 .

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Josep Espluga-Trenc, Laura Calvet-Mir, Daniel López-García, Marina Di Masso, Ariadna Pomar, Guillem Tendero. Local Agri-Food Systems as a Cultural Heritage Strategy to Recover the Sustainability of Local Communities. Insights from the Spanish Case. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6068.

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Josep Espluga-Trenc; Laura Calvet-Mir; Daniel López-García; Marina Di Masso; Ariadna Pomar; Guillem Tendero. 2021. "Local Agri-Food Systems as a Cultural Heritage Strategy to Recover the Sustainability of Local Communities. Insights from the Spanish Case." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6068.

Research article
Published: 21 April 2021 in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
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Alternative food systems and networks, which have emerged around the world, are often fragmentary, reduced in size and frequently unfold in parallel, hardly linked to each other. Agroecology faces the challenge of scaling up these initiatives to gain size and a significant impact on food production and consumption. Within the agroecological movement, however, diverse conceptions exist of what a sustainable food system should be. It is thus necessary to reach an extensive consensus, from the perspective of agroecology, on the principles guiding the construction of such a system. This paper discusses the principles that would best steer the building of Agroecology-based Local Agri-food Systems (ALAS). To this end, a critical review of the scientific literature on alternative food networks and systems was performed. In so doing, we highlighted the aspects that one could consider as purely agroecological in nature and sought to bring them together to form a coherent proposal. Consequently, the present paper systematizes the main contributions of literature on alternative food networks and systems, taking into account the characteristics of sustainability from an agroecology viewpoint, and identifies the issues requiring further development. Several principles are proposed to define local food systems, based on the four dimensions of sustainability: environmental health, economic viability, social equity and the right to decide what, how and for whom food is produced.

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Manuel González De Molina; Daniel Lopez-Garcia. Principles for designing Agroecology-based Local (territorial) Agri-food Systems: a critical revision. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 2021, 45, 1050 -1082.

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Manuel González De Molina, Daniel Lopez-Garcia. Principles for designing Agroecology-based Local (territorial) Agri-food Systems: a critical revision. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 2021; 45 (7):1050-1082.

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Manuel González De Molina; Daniel Lopez-Garcia. 2021. "Principles for designing Agroecology-based Local (territorial) Agri-food Systems: a critical revision." Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 45, no. 7: 1050-1082.

Journal article
Published: 11 January 2021 in Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles
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En los últimos años la reflexión científica acerca de las transiciones hacia la sostenibilidad en el sistema agroalimentario ha recibido una atención creciente, y se han desarrollado aproximaciones en distintos contextos y escalas territoriales. Sin embargo, las posibles trayectorias de transición emprendidas desde situaciones y actores convencionales han sido menos estudiadas. El presente artículo analiza tres estudios de caso en los que se ha aplicado la metodología de la Dinamización Local Agroecológica para impulsar transiciones hacia la sostenibilidad en grupos de agricultores convencionales de regadío en el término municipal de València. La discusión aporta reflexiones empíricas relevantes en aspectos hasta ahora poco desarrollados, como son la dialéctica entre las visiones deterministas y las de final abierto en torno a las trayectorias y contenidos específicos de cada proceso de transición; la naturaleza y rasgos del sujeto de la transición; o el papel del enfoque agroecológico en la conceptualización de las transiciones hacia la sostenibilidad de los sistemas alimentarios. El artículo señala la importancia del trabajo desde enfoques no-deterministas para aprehender situaciones complejas, y la necesidad de profundizar en el análisis de los sujetos de las transiciones hacia la sostenibilidad agroalimentaria en el desarrollo de marcos metodológicos adaptados a cada perfil concreto.

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Daniel López-García; Lluís Benlloch Calvo; Vanessa Calabuig Tormo; Piergiuseppe Carucci; Ignacio Diez Torrijos; Alba Herrero Garcés; Mireia López Nicolás; Josep Manuel Pérez Sánchez; Lola Vicente-Amazán. Las transiciones hacia la sostenibilidad como procesos de final abierto: Dinamización Local Agroecológica con horticultores convencionales de l’Horta de València. Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles 2021, 1 .

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Daniel López-García, Lluís Benlloch Calvo, Vanessa Calabuig Tormo, Piergiuseppe Carucci, Ignacio Diez Torrijos, Alba Herrero Garcés, Mireia López Nicolás, Josep Manuel Pérez Sánchez, Lola Vicente-Amazán. Las transiciones hacia la sostenibilidad como procesos de final abierto: Dinamización Local Agroecológica con horticultores convencionales de l’Horta de València. Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles. 2021; (88):1.

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Daniel López-García; Lluís Benlloch Calvo; Vanessa Calabuig Tormo; Piergiuseppe Carucci; Ignacio Diez Torrijos; Alba Herrero Garcés; Mireia López Nicolás; Josep Manuel Pérez Sánchez; Lola Vicente-Amazán. 2021. "Las transiciones hacia la sostenibilidad como procesos de final abierto: Dinamización Local Agroecológica con horticultores convencionales de l’Horta de València." Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles , no. 88: 1.

Journal article
Published: 30 December 2020 in Estudios Geográficos
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La presente investigación pretende identificar los ámbitos de gobernanza significativos en las políticas alimentarias urbanas, así como las deficiencias y potencialidades en su implementación. Para ello se analizan las acciones para mejorar la gobernanza alimentaria en 13 ciudades españolas, relacionadas todas ellas con la Red de Ciudades por la Agroecología. La información obtenida mediante un cuestionario ha sido complementada con entrevistas personales y análisis de documentación sobre acciones específicas. Además, se han analizado las Estrategias Alimentarias Urbanas de tres ciudades (Valladolid, Zaragoza y Segovia). El estudio identifica 6 ámbitos de la gobernanza alimentaria (1-De base; 2-Multi-actor; 3-Intra-administración; 4-Multi-nivel; 5-Territorial; y 6-Gobernanza translocal). En torno a estos ámbitos se discuten conceptos como las nuevas institucionalidades multi-actor que se están generando en torno a las políticas alimentarias urbanas; la dialéctica entre administración, organizaciones sociales y sector agrario o la pertinencia de distintas miradas como los enfoques de Sistema Alimentario de Ciudad-Región. Las conclusiones sugieren profundizar en la articulación de los enfoques top-down y bottom-up de las políticas alimentarias, aportando centralidad al papel del sector agrario ecológico y a actores urbanos desfavorecidos, así como a la importancia de trascender la escala meramente local para poder desarrollar el potencial de sostenibilidad de las políticas alimentarias. De esta forma, la gobernanza de las políticas alimentarias urbanas va más allá de los territorios y paisajes urbanos, del mismo modo que las dinámicas generales urbanas generan importantes impactos sobre el conjunto del territorio.

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Daniel López-García; Nuria Alonso-Leal; Verónica García-García; Jorge Molero-Cortés; Javier García-Fernández; Laura Arroyo-Escudero; Pedro M. Herrera-Calvo. Ámbitos de gobernanza en las políticas alimentarias urbanas: una mirada operativa. Estudios Geográficos 2020, 81, e051 .

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Daniel López-García, Nuria Alonso-Leal, Verónica García-García, Jorge Molero-Cortés, Javier García-Fernández, Laura Arroyo-Escudero, Pedro M. Herrera-Calvo. Ámbitos de gobernanza en las políticas alimentarias urbanas: una mirada operativa. Estudios Geográficos. 2020; 81 (289):e051.

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Daniel López-García; Nuria Alonso-Leal; Verónica García-García; Jorge Molero-Cortés; Javier García-Fernández; Laura Arroyo-Escudero; Pedro M. Herrera-Calvo. 2020. "Ámbitos de gobernanza en las políticas alimentarias urbanas: una mirada operativa." Estudios Geográficos 81, no. 289: e051.

Journal article
Published: 04 October 2019 in revista PH
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Una forma de superar algunas de las limitaciones de las políticas tradicionales de desarrollo rural es la apuesta por modelos agroalimentarios alternativos basados en la agroecología y la soberanía alimentaria. Los procesos de transición agroecológica pretenden, entre otras cosas, activar dos dinámicas fundamentales, la recuperación de conocimiento ecológico tradicional y la articulación de redes alimentarias alternativas, y para ponerse en marcha y mantenerse en el tiempo necesitan de un sistema organizativo en red que, en la medida de lo posible, cuente con el apoyo de las instituciones locales. En el caso español, durante los últimos años cada vez más administraciones públicas están poniendo en marcha políticas alimentarias locales, con paradigmas relativamente distantes del modelo agroalimentario hegemónico. En el presente texto se analiza cómo los procesos de transición agroecológica pueden contribuir a activar y/o reinventar un patrimonio cultural capaz de movilizar redes de actores en el territorio, y cómo estos procesos pueden modificar, a su vez, el funcionamiento de ciertas instituciones locales introduciendo espacios participativos y foros híbridos de acción colectiva.

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Josep Espluga Trenc; Daniel López-García; Laura Calvet-Mir; Marina Di Masso; Ariadna Pomar León; Guillem Tendero Acin. Agroecología, conocimiento tradicional e identidades locales para la sostenibilidad y contra el despoblamiento rural. revista PH 2019, 108 .

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Josep Espluga Trenc, Daniel López-García, Laura Calvet-Mir, Marina Di Masso, Ariadna Pomar León, Guillem Tendero Acin. Agroecología, conocimiento tradicional e identidades locales para la sostenibilidad y contra el despoblamiento rural. revista PH. 2019; ():108.

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Josep Espluga Trenc; Daniel López-García; Laura Calvet-Mir; Marina Di Masso; Ariadna Pomar León; Guillem Tendero Acin. 2019. "Agroecología, conocimiento tradicional e identidades locales para la sostenibilidad y contra el despoblamiento rural." revista PH , no. : 108.

Journal article
Published: 07 August 2019 in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
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Daniel López-García; Verónica García-García; Yolanda Sampedro-Ortega; Ariadna Pomar-León; Guillem Tendero-Acin; Annaïs Sastre-Morató; Ana Correro-Humanes. Exploring the contradictions of scaling: action plans for agroecological transition in metropolitan environments. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 2019, 44, 467 -489.

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Daniel López-García, Verónica García-García, Yolanda Sampedro-Ortega, Ariadna Pomar-León, Guillem Tendero-Acin, Annaïs Sastre-Morató, Ana Correro-Humanes. Exploring the contradictions of scaling: action plans for agroecological transition in metropolitan environments. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 2019; 44 (4):467-489.

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Daniel López-García; Verónica García-García; Yolanda Sampedro-Ortega; Ariadna Pomar-León; Guillem Tendero-Acin; Annaïs Sastre-Morató; Ana Correro-Humanes. 2019. "Exploring the contradictions of scaling: action plans for agroecological transition in metropolitan environments." Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 44, no. 4: 467-489.

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Published: 01 October 2018
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Daniel López García; Beatriz Pontijas; Manuel González de Molina; Manuel Delgado; Gloria I. Guzmán; Juan Infante-Amate. Saltando de escala… ¿hacia dónde? El papel de los actores convencionales en los sistemas alimentarios alternativos. 2018, 99 -127.

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Daniel López García, Beatriz Pontijas, Manuel González de Molina, Manuel Delgado, Gloria I. Guzmán, Juan Infante-Amate. Saltando de escala… ¿hacia dónde? El papel de los actores convencionales en los sistemas alimentarios alternativos. . 2018; (25):99-127.

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Daniel López García; Beatriz Pontijas; Manuel González de Molina; Manuel Delgado; Gloria I. Guzmán; Juan Infante-Amate. 2018. "Saltando de escala… ¿hacia dónde? El papel de los actores convencionales en los sistemas alimentarios alternativos." , no. 25: 99-127.

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Published: 08 September 2018 in Sustainability
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Traditional agroecological knowledge (TAeK) refers to the cumulative and evolving body of knowledge, practices, beliefs, institutions, and worldviews about the relationships between a society or cultural group and their agroecosystems. These knowledge systems contribute to maintaining environmental and culturally sensitive food systems and have been considered very relevant for agroecological transitions, or the processes of scaling-up and -out agroecology. However, TAeK’s erosion and enclosure threatens its use and reproduction, which in turn might affect TAeK’s potential contribution to agroecological transitions. Here, we explore how transforming TAeK, and particularly TAeK on landraces, into a digital commons can contribute to its maintenance and protection, and thus to agroecological transitions. We do so by analyzing the CONECT-e platform, an initiative for digitally storing and sharing TAeK in a participatory way. One year after being launched, CONECT-e has documented 452 geographically distinct landraces from 81 different species. The information shared in this platform is well-structured, clear, and reliable; it thus allows for the replication of the knowledge reported. Moreover, because CONECT-e makes the documented information freely available and protects it with a copyleft license, placing information in this platform could help one face landrace misappropriation issues. CONECT-e, or similar initiatives, could contribute to agroecological transitions via maintaining TAeK under the digital commons framework, making it accessible to all society and avoiding enclosure processes.

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Laura Calvet-Mir; Petra Benyei; Laura Aceituno-Mata; Manuel Pardo-De-Santayana; Daniel López-García; María Carrascosa-García; Antonio Perdomo Molina; Victoria Reyes-García. The Contribution of Traditional Agroecological Knowledge as a Digital Commons to Agroecological Transitions: The Case of the CONECT-e Platform. Sustainability 2018, 10, 3214 .

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Laura Calvet-Mir, Petra Benyei, Laura Aceituno-Mata, Manuel Pardo-De-Santayana, Daniel López-García, María Carrascosa-García, Antonio Perdomo Molina, Victoria Reyes-García. The Contribution of Traditional Agroecological Knowledge as a Digital Commons to Agroecological Transitions: The Case of the CONECT-e Platform. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (9):3214.

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Laura Calvet-Mir; Petra Benyei; Laura Aceituno-Mata; Manuel Pardo-De-Santayana; Daniel López-García; María Carrascosa-García; Antonio Perdomo Molina; Victoria Reyes-García. 2018. "The Contribution of Traditional Agroecological Knowledge as a Digital Commons to Agroecological Transitions: The Case of the CONECT-e Platform." Sustainability 10, no. 9: 3214.

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Published: 02 May 2018 in Agriculture and Human Values
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The global environmental and social-economic crises of industrialized agriculture have led to the emergence of agroecology as an alternative approach aiming to increase the ecological, social and economic sustainability of agri–food systems. The ‘multi-level perspective’ is now a widely used framework to understand and promote the upscaling of local innovation niches, such as agroecology, to broader scales (e.g., regional, national, international), thus reconfiguring the dominant socio-technical regimes. Additionally, emergent ‘hybrid forums’ can provide a space between niche and regime where niche innovators can become important actors in scaling up and out emergent innovations. In this paper, we examine a university training program (Postgraduate Diploma in Local Agroecological Dynamization at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), to better understand its role as a ‘hybrid forum’. Our analysis focuses especially on how the program, as an example of a hybrid forum, worked to reconfigure practices, concepts, and tools of local development practitioners. We also assess to what extent the program contributed to transitioning local development institutions toward agroecology. An online survey (n = 46) and in-depth interviews (n = 16) were carried out to determine how the training program has impacted the student’s opinions and their respective institutions. The results show that most of the students consider that they have acquired new theoretical frameworks and useful methods to re-framing their local development projects, that new alliances with multi-actor networks have been perceived, and that some internal changes of the local development practices have taken place. We conclude that the training program, as a hybrid forum, is capable of outscaling niche innovations through linkages with different kind of actors both from the niche and the regime. Political changes in the socio-technical landscape level offer an opportunity to amplify the impact of the innovations which are being generated by those multi-actor networks, but with a limited multi-level impact as far as institutional regime-actors not aligned with agroecological transition keep the most of the competencies on agri–food systems.

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Daniel López-García; Laura Calvet-Mir; Marina Di Masso; Josep Espluga. Multi-actor networks and innovation niches: university training for local Agroecological Dynamization. Agriculture and Human Values 2018, 36, 567 -579.

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Daniel López-García, Laura Calvet-Mir, Marina Di Masso, Josep Espluga. Multi-actor networks and innovation niches: university training for local Agroecological Dynamization. Agriculture and Human Values. 2018; 36 (3):567-579.

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Daniel López-García; Laura Calvet-Mir; Marina Di Masso; Josep Espluga. 2018. "Multi-actor networks and innovation niches: university training for local Agroecological Dynamization." Agriculture and Human Values 36, no. 3: 567-579.

Journal article
Published: 04 September 2012 in Journal of Sustainable Agriculture
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The serious problems of agrarian unsustainability cannot be solved through technological changes that lessen environmental impacts. Although technological change is important, it is also necessary to change the agri-food system as a whole. Participatory action research (PAR) is a methodological approach to collaborate with local communities. It enables us to advance in the restructuring of physical flows, economies, and information that support local farming, as a means to achieve greater autonomy and self-management. This article presents several case studies in Spain in which PAR has been applied to build local organic food networks. These are characterized by a more sustainable use of local resources and the development of short food supply chains.

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Gloria I. Guzmán; Daniel López-García; Lara Román; Antonio M. Alonso. Participatory Action Research in Agroecology: Building Local Organic Food Networks in Spain. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 2012, 1 .

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Gloria I. Guzmán, Daniel López-García, Lara Román, Antonio M. Alonso. Participatory Action Research in Agroecology: Building Local Organic Food Networks in Spain. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. 2012; ():1.

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Gloria I. Guzmán; Daniel López-García; Lara Román; Antonio M. Alonso. 2012. "Participatory Action Research in Agroecology: Building Local Organic Food Networks in Spain." Journal of Sustainable Agriculture , no. : 1.