This issue of Farming Matters explores innovative ways to demonstrate that agroecology provides critical solutions to the challenges of our time.

Agroecology is gaining recognition for its potential to address climate change, biodiversity loss and malnutrition, and many successful examples exist. However, to garner the necessary support in policy and practice, looking differently at ‘progress’, ‘performance’ or ‘success’ of farming and food systems is key.

As agroecology can have impact at many levels, conventional indicators such as yield per hectare of a single crop no longer suffice. The experiences, opinions, and perspectives featured in this issue show how farmers, researchers, policy makers and consumers are using new lenses to track change.

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Farmers in focus: Madelyn Álvarez Díaz

Editorial: Proving the potential of agroecology

Perspectives: Indicators as a tool for changing policy and practice

The true cost of food by Patrick Holden

Voices from the field

Seeing is believing: urban agroecological transition by Ahmed Inusa Adamu

Opinion: Elizabeth Mpofu

“Impact studies are crucial for the amplification of agroecology” Interview with Clara Nicholls

Youth and agriculture: Edie Mukiibi

Short chains bring long-term gains-Eduardo Lopez Rosse

Locally rooted: Ideas and initiatives from the field

Agroecology contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals-Michael Farrelly

Opinion: Martin Drago

Perspectives: How peasants read their farm by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg

Mind! New books on assessing impact of agroecology

Raising Voices: lessons learnt from a documentation workshop in Jordan by Laura Eggens and Jorge Chavez-Tafur

How to amplify agroecology by Janneke Bruil and Jessica Milgroom

Call for articles: Food sovereignty in practice