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Exploring Potential Domains Of Agroecological Transformation In The United States, Catherine Horner Jan 2023

Exploring Potential Domains Of Agroecological Transformation In The United States, Catherine Horner

Graduate College Dissertations and Theses

There is now substantial evidence that agroecology constitutes a necessary pathway towards socially just and ecologically resilient agrifood systems. In the United States, however, agroecology remains relegated to the margins of research and policy spaces. This dissertation explores three potential domains of agroecological transformation in the US. Domains of transformation are sites of contestation in which agroecology interfaces with the industrial agrifood system; these material and conceptual spaces may point to important pathways for scaling agroecology. To explore this concept, I examine formal agroecology education (Chapter 1), extension services and statewide discourses around soil health (Chapter 2), and models of …