Diversification through agroecological principles may maintain and stabilize yields in an increasingly more unpredictable climate, including market price fluctuations, as well as preserve and enhance the threatened natural resource base and the environment. Based on a participatory interview process this article identifies the barriers encountered by a group of Danish biodynamic farmers striving for self-sufficient farm systems with no or very little dependency on imported materials by developing biologically, economically and socially diverse farms. Through an iterative interview process the study found that barriers outside farm management are hindering the transition toward diverse farming and that a further exploration of the need for and implications of food sovereignty in the Global North might generate the discussions needed to support implementation of more agroecological farming system practises.

As the introduction to this collection suggests, many of the collected essays identify problems and challenges rooted in orthodoxies (see Gills & Morgan, 2020). Concomitantly, what is yet to be lea...

Finding ourselves in the midst of a plural eco-social crisis, this paper addresses roles and guiding questions for action research understanding, envisioning, practicing, and organising eco-social action, with the aim of renewing our human entanglements with the living ecologies, in which we are embedded. Driven by the aim of democratising eco-social transformations, climate- and biodiversity disasters are approached as symptoms of a plural eco-social crisis. From an eco-feminist position, this crisis concerns notions of mastery and extractivism eroding human and societal capabilities to sustain inherent regenerative capacities of the living. Grounded in critical utopian action research, the paper addresses four different dimensions in action research for eco-social transformation: i) Enabling social learning spaces to make visible the ways we are socially and ecologically related; ii) re-imagining how we want to live and relate in wider ecologies; iii) seeking alternatives to mastery through tangible practices; and iv) enabling new organisational forms for societal reorganisation. Building on concrete cases from urban planning to rural and regenerative practice, this paper describes how these different perspectives can mutually strengthen action research for eco-social transformation.

De senere år har vi set en stigende opmærksomhed mod at fremme samspillet mellem videnskabelig viden og udviklingsprocesser i praksis. Anvendelsesorienteringen er på mange måder positiv, men stiller samtidig fornyede krav til forskningsmiljøerne om at forankre praksissamarbejder videnskabeligt. Med dette mål for øje, introducerer artiklen i et metodologisk perspektiv til fremtidsværkstedet og dets potentialer til at skabe ny forandringsorienteret viden på tværs af praksiserfaringer og videnskabeligt forankrede kvalitetskriterier. Forholdet mellem teoretisk inspiration og metodisk tilgang udfoldes i en tematisk diskussion af, hvordan værkstedets ambitioner om at fremme demokratisk deltagelse, frirum til eksperimentel nytænkning og tættere samspil mellem vidensformer, kan udmøntes på måder, hvor både praksis og den kvalitative forskning stimuleres og udvikles i et forandringsperspektiv.