Agroecological transition: understanding farmers' cultural identities and social practices to enable mixed farming futures

农业生态学是可持续土地利用的重要创新途径，最大限度地利用农业生态系统功能中的生态过程（Poux和Aubert，2018;食品，农业和农村委员会，2020）。然而，从农民的角度如何理解，实践和想象这种农业生态转型的社会科学分析有限（货车der Ploeg等人，2019）。该博士旨在通过对牲畜和耕地的看法和做法的社会文化分析来填补这一空白。提倡“混合农业”的投资组合，它认为反刍家畜和所有耕地系统可以采用农业生态学。该学生将位于土壤协会的农业和土地利用政策组，并将成为一个令人兴奋的新的社会经济计划与农业生态学的一部分。

Agroecology is an essential innovation pathway for sustainable land use, maximising the use of ecological processes in the functioning of agroecosystems (Poux and Aubert, 2018; Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, 2020). However, there is limited social science analysis of how this agro-ecological transition is understood, practised and imagined from a farmer perspective (van der Ploeg et al, 2019). This PhD aims to fill this gap through a socio-cultural analysis of perceptions and practices on livestock and arable farms. Advocating 'mixed farming' portfolios, it considers how ruminant livestock and all-arable systems can adopt agroecology. The student will be located within the Soil Association's Farming and Land Use Policy group and will be part of an exciting new socio-economic programme related to agroecology.