You can read our initial manifesto for an Agroecological Urbanism at pp. 3-4 of this special issue on Urban Agroecology that I co-edited back in 2017 (whole issue in English here and in Portughese here). This is, to date, still one of the most diverse publications on the topic, with voices from activists, academics and practitioners from around the world. 

A web collection of multimedia materials for inspiring the political, policy amd practical work of building an Agroecological Urbanism. A toolbox rich of case studies, conversation starters, maps, historical overviews and videoclips with lived experiences. The section on the Building Blocks illustrates in detail eight areas where new society-farmers articulations and political work are needed.

Full access here

This is an anthology of articles reflecting on methodologies, concepts, policies and practices to resource the political and territorial journeys of transformation towards and agroecological urbanism. You can read the introduction, Chapter 1 and conclusions  here, or see the book on the publisher's website here.

Building on several years of empirical research, in this article I illustrate the multiple ways in which the food-disabling city (which is the ordinary city of neoliberal and capitalist urbanisms) hinder the possibilities of food sovereignty and the right to grow through urban agriculture. Instead, I illustrate five points for contesting neoliberal urbanism (including the right to grow food), and a three-pronge strategy to connect urban food justice movements with peasant agroecology strategies. Read here

In our chapter (chapter 1)  in this anthology, we offer a reflection on the relation between health, food and medicine in the Western world, particularly in urban contexts, from the perspective of agroecology. You can read our article for free here, and see the full table of content here

In this article we discuss the importance for agroecology movements to engage with the politics of urban transformation as a pre-requisite for agroecological transitions. We also illustrate a few examples of prefigurative politics in the realm of urban agroecology, that begin to transform urban life and build resourceful urban enviornments.

This article is open access, here

"The Ramallah Letters" - This piece is the english original of a letter exchange (published first in a german translation in 2015), written in the weeks following the meeting of the authors at a session I co-organised with Barbara van Dyck at the International Conference of Critical Geography in Ramallah, Palestine, August 2015. We later published it in English in its original form, in the edited book Urban Gardening as Politics

Read it in English here or see the German book here

Drawing on our experience within the Edible Public Space project (Leeds, UK, 2011-12), this paper Barbara and I explore the “spheres of influence” and contradictions that shaped the project's trajectory and aim to capture learning elements for scholarly activism, political gardening and radical urbanism. Doing so, we aim to contribute to the creation of an active memory of political gardening and to problematise the links between research-informed strategic thinking and actions, and the vocation of critical urban theory to provide and make visible alternatives for social change.

Open access here

Written in 2012/2013, this paper aimed to define a research agenda for a critical geography of urban agriculture.
Open access here

Three short chapters that I co-wrote with Michiel Dehaene and Colin Sage, in the context of the project "Urban Agriculture Europe" COST action (2012-2016). Here we explore the role and limits of urban agrocological practices in beginning to mend the metabolic rift in cities. You can download them in one go, at this link (you will need to create a Research Gate profile first)

Can we use urban waste from the food industry and green space management for improving damaged urban soils for agroecological food production? Which of these waste stream are safer? How should policy try to regulate them? In this article we share the results of our pilot study in Rosario, Argentina, and begin to pose questions on what are the consequences for the way we conceive of agroecology in urban contexts. Read the full article open access here.