In response to the sustainability issues that agriculture faces in advanced economies, agroecology has gained increasing relevance in scientific, political, and social debates. This has promoted discussion about transitions to agroecology, which represents a significant advancement. Accordingly, it has become a growing field of research. We reviewed the literature on and in support of farm transitions to agroecology in advanced economies in order to identify key research challenges and suggest innovative research paths. Our findings can be summarized as follows: (1) Research that supports exploration and definition of desired futures, whether based on future-oriented modeling or expert-based foresight approaches, should more explicitly include the farm level. It should stimulate the creativity and design ability of farmers and other stakeholders, and also address issues of representation and power among them. (2) Research that creates awareness and assesses farms before, during or after transition requires more holistic and dynamic assessment frameworks. These frameworks need to be more flexible to adapt to the diversity of global and local challenges. Their assessment should explicitly include uncertainty due to the feedback loops and emergent properties of transitions. (3) Research that analyzes and supports farms during transition should focus more on the dynamics of change processes by valuing what happens on the farms. Research should especially give more credence to on-farm experiments conducted by farmers and develop new tools and methods (e.g., for strategic monitoring) to support these transitions. This is the first review of scientific studies of farm transitions to agroecology. Overall, the review indicates that these transitions challenge the system boundaries, temporal horizons, and sustainability dimensions that agricultural researchers usually consider. In this context, farm transitions to agroecology require changes in the current organization and funding of research in order to encourage longer term and more adaptive configurations.

为了应对农业在发达经济体中面临的可持续性问题，农业生态学在科学、政治和社会辩论中越来越重要。这促进了关于向生态农业转型的讨论，这是一个重大进步。因此，它已成为一个不断发展的研究领域。我们回顾了发达经济体中关于农场向生态农业转型的文献以及支持它们的文献，以确定关键的研究挑战并提出创新的研究路径。我们的发现可以总结如下：(1) 支持探索和定义理想未来的研究，无论是基于面向未来的建模还是基于专家的预见方法，都应该更明确地包括农场层面。它应该激发农民和其他利益相关者的创造力和设计能力，并解决他们之间的代表性和权力问题。(2) 在转型之前、期间或之后提高认识和评估农场的研究需要更全面和动态的评估框架。这些框架需要更加灵活，以适应全球和地方挑战的多样性。他们的评估应明确包括由于反馈循环和过渡的紧急特性引起的不确定性。(3) 在转型期间分析和支持农场的研究应该通过评估农场发生的事情来更多地关注变化过程的动态。研究尤其应该更加相信农民进行的农场实验，并开发新的工具和方法（例如，用于战略监测）来支持这些转变。这是对农场向生态农业转型的科学研究的首次回顾。总的来说，审查表明这些转变挑战了农业研究人员通常考虑的系统边界、时间范围和可持续性维度。在这种情况下，农场向生态农业的转型需要改变当前的组织和研究资金，以鼓励长期和更具适应性的配置。