Introduction

Abstract

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores innovative and radical approaches on sustainable food planning, built from the perspective of agroecology, and makes the case for an ‘agroecological urbanism’. It provides the opportunity to reflect on how ideas of agroecology and food sovereignty are being debated and researched with the aid of experimental practices. The book discusses concrete examples that show that the agroecological transition could be strengthened by the adoption of a political understanding of commons and commoning as intersectional antidotes for a just agroecological transition, one that rejects the colonial, patriarchal, unjust and anti-ecological premises of the mainstream food systems. It focuses on the politics of peri-urban land reclamation and redistribution as a tool for resourcefulness. The book reviews a mobilisation exercise advocating access to land in Rome, including the 2013 response of the city and regional administration to make public farmland available.