The production and availability of nutritious, healthy, and culturally adequate food depends on functioning ecosystems, but also on our ability to recognize human rights and the intrinsic values of other living beings, from animals and plants to microorganisms. 

The articles in this edition called for an overhaul of how societies produce, distribute, and eat food and on the way to collectively resist the exploitation of nature. Building upon longstanding struggles of small-scale food producers’ organizations and Indigenous Peoples for food sovereignty and agroecology, today’s movements show that ecological concerns are inseparable from socio-economic realities, including the political and ecological roots of the current food systems. In these struggles, the authors claim to embrace diversity, build strong alliances, and make peoples’ voices heard in all the spaces where decisions are made.