Facundo Martín has been awarded the fellowship to study the transformation of agricultural and food systems in Germany and Argentina. For more than a decade, he has been investigating conflicts over water, land and food Argentina and beyond.

In his research he studies the construction of agroecological food systems in rural-urban settings. “The planned project focuses on the transformation of agroecological food systems in the Mendoza Metropolitan Area (MMA) and the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region (BBMR) and their rural-urban linkages. I want to understand the spatial, political, social and institutional conditions and actor constellations that foster the transformation of agricultural and food systems towards agroecology and sustainability”, says Martín.

The project will run for fifteen months, from May 2024, in cooperation with Kristina Dietz from the University of Kassel and Barbara Göbel from the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin. The originality of the project lies in analyzing processes of transformations of agricultural and food systems towards sustainability through a multi-local, transdisciplinary and North-South comparative approach. The aim is to better understand how stagnation and conventionalization in the agricultural sector are caused and can be overcome. Furthermore, the innovative potential of the project lies in the fact that the comparative research is being carried out by a scientist from the Global South in the Global North, in general it is the other way round.

Background:

https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/georg-forster-research-fellowship