The science and practice of agroecology: Pathway to sustainable food systems

Part 1 Why agroecology?

• 1.Definition and history of agroecology: Pablo Tittonell, University of Groningen, The Netherlands;
• 2.Green revolution agriculture: the treadmill of industrial agriculture: Matthew Houser, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USA;
• 3.Agriculture and societal expectations for the 21st century: Jennifer Blesh, University of Michigan, USA;

Part 2 Ecological knowledge and its application to agroecosystems

• 4.The biodiversity-ecosystem function conceptual framework: A core hypothesis of agroecology: Rob Brooker, James Hutton Institute, UK;
• 5.The extended phenotype: how do plants shape communities of associated organisms?: Matthew Bakker, University of Manitoba, Canada;
• 6.What is meant by the ecological resilience of agroecosystems?: Meagan Schipanski, Colorado State University, USA;
• 7.Cross-scale effects on arthropod diversity, community composition, and ecosystem services: the intermediate diversity hypothesis: Marcos Ezequiel Nacif, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina;
• 8.The stress gradient hypothesis and positive plant-plant interactions: Li Long, Chinese Agricultural University, China;
• 9.Ecosystem science as a basis for agroecological nutrient management: Gabriel Maltais-Landry, University of Florida, USA;
• 10.Rhizosphere ecology: an agroecological frontier: Bryan D. Emmett, USDA-ARS, USA;

Part 3 Synergies and tradeoffs under agroecological management regimes

• 11.Crop diversity impacts yield and yield stability: Tim Bowles, University of California-Berkeley, USA;
• 12.What is the potential for managed biodiversity to reduce inputs while also maintaining yields?: Anna Norberg, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany;
• 13.The tension between biodiversity restoration and food production: land sparing, land sharing, and rewilding: Ivette Perfecto, University of Michigan, USA;
• 14.What is the potential for expanding the role of plant-microbial symbioses in agroecosystems?: James Bever, University of Kansas, USA;
• 15.Integrated crop-livestock systems: productive potential and ecosystem services: Amélie Gaudin, University of California-Davis, USA;
• 16.Perennial grains: From moonshot to farmers' fields: Timothy Crews, The Land Institute, USA;
• 17.The role of agroecological management systems in climate change adaptation and mitigation: Fabian Menalled, Montana State University, USA;
• 18.Push-pull polyculture systems: using functional diversity to provide essential ecosystem services: Daniel Mutyambai, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Kenya;

Part 4 Agroecosystems as couple socio-ecological systems

• 19.Agroecology: where ecological science meets the social sphere: Michael Mayerfeld Bell, University of Guelph, USA;
• 20.Analyzing top-down and bottom-up drivers of natural resource management: Laura Pereira, Global Change Research Institute (GCI) - Wits University, South Africa;
• 21.Collective natural resource management: David E. Ervin, Portland State University, USA;
• 22.Participatory action research and co-creation of knowledge: Sieglinde Snapp, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico;
• 23.Can ecological economics promote agroecological management systems?: Joshua Farley, University of Vermont, USA;

Part 5 Agroecology and pathways to sustainable food systems

• 24.Farmers as innovators and agents of change: Daniel Lopez-Garcia, Spanish National Research Council, Spain;
• 25.Agroecology and food sovereignty: Hannah Wittman, University of British Columbia, Canada;
• 26.Open-source technology and knowledge systems to support agroecological production: Ankita Raturi, Purdue University, USA;
• 27.Indigenous knowledge and agroecological food systems: Nancy Turner, University of Victoria, Canada;
• 28.Breeding crops for ecologically-based agriculture: Julie Dawson, University of Wisconsin, USA;