ABSTRACT

In recent years, urban contexts and urban-rural linkages have become central for scholars and activists engaged in agrarian questions, agroecological transitions and food system transformation. Grassroots experimentations in urban agroecology and farmers’ engagement with urban policies have marked the rise of a new agenda aiming to bridge urban and agrarian movements.

Departing from the work of Eric Holt-Gimenez and Annie Shattuck, this paper argues that the way urban-rural links have been conceptualized is occasionally progressive, and that an agroecology-informed food system transformation needs radical approaches. Acknowledging that processes of urbanization are dynamic, driven by specific lifestyles, consumption patterns, and value orientations – producing ongoing suburbanization, land enclosures, farmers displacement and food-knowledge loss – the paper argues that thinking transitions through new rural-urban links is unfit to tackle the evolving nature of these geographies, and reproduces the distinction between consumers and producers, living on either side of what Mindi Schneider and Philip McMichael have described as an epistemic and ecological rift.

Building on insights from four case-studies across global north and south, the paper reframes agroecological transitions as a paradigmatic change in biopolitical spatial relations, economic values and planning agency – what we call an ‘agroecological urbanism’. The paper articulates a transformation agenda addressing urban nutrients, peri-urban landuse, community food pedagogies and farmers’ infrastructure.

摘要

近年来，城市环境和城乡联系已成为从事农业问题，农业生态转型和粮食系统转型的学者和活动家的中心。城市农业生态学的基层实验和农民对城市政策的参与标志着旨在桥接城市和农业运动的新议程的兴起。

与埃里克·霍尔特·吉梅内斯（Eric Holt-Gimenez）和安妮·沙特克（Annie Shattuck）的工作不同，本文认为城乡联系的概念化有时是渐进的，而以农业生态为基础的粮食系统转型需要采取激进的方法。承认城市化进程是动态的，受特定的生活方式，消费模式和价值取向的驱动–导致持续的郊区化，土地围封，农民流离失所和食物知识流失–该论文认为，通过新的城乡联系进行思维转变并不适合解决了这些地区不断发展的本质，并重现了消费者和生产者之间的区别，这种区别生活在Mindi Schneider和Philip McMichael所描述的认知和生态裂痕的两侧。

本文基于来自全球北方和南方的四个案例研究的见解，将农业生态转型重新定义为生物政治空间关系，经济价值和规划机构（我们称为“农业生态都市主义”）的范式变化。该文件阐明了一项转型议程，内容涉及城市养分，城市周边土地利用，社区食品教学法和农民的基础设施。