You can find more of my work on participatory learning, sustainable winegrape production, and efforts to scale up agricultural partnerships at http://itrs.scu.edu/kwarner/agecobc.htm#agroecology
What I hope Agroecology in Action does: public mobilization
Do you ever wonder why it’s easier to propose theories about how agriculture should be sustainable, but hard to actually implement them? As started my dissertation research, I observed that many theories have evolved about sustainable agriculture, but few studies explain how people (farmers, farm advisors, scientists) had actually put these ideas into action. More than 80 definitions of sustainable agriculture could be found in scientific publications, but I found myself more interested in understanding how people translated the ideas into action.
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