The principals of agroecology are reviewed and the ways in which it meets the challenges that need to be met by contemporary agriculture are established.

The multiple crises of the corporate food regime suggest that an alternative food system needs to be developed. However, the rapid growth of transnational organic suggests that organic agricultural systems are not necessarily the basis by which an alternative food system might be envisaged. As a...

The mechanisms by which industrial agriculture increases the likelihood of zoonotic diseases are reviewed.