Beyond Supporting Access to Land in Socio-Technical Transitions. How Polish Grassroots Initiatives Help Farmers and New Entrants in Transitioning to Sustainable Models of Agriculture

The importance of agri-food systems for global sustainability calls researching and advancing socio-technical transitions towards environmentally friendly models farming. These hinge on many prerequisites, one which is providing access to land farmers new entrants who experiment with sustainable farming models. However, in be viable, should complemented securing “intangible” resources such as skills, knowledge or networks. It seems that increasingly often these are being provided by various grassroots initiatives. goal this paper identify how the strategies employed initiatives support transitioning In order answer question, we perform case studies three Polish initiatives—Agro-Perma-Lab, PermaKultura.Edu.PL Ecological Folk High School Grzybów—active promoting agroecology, permaculture organic results show a diversity reflect frameworks they operate. Considering from perspective transition suggests can replicated other contexts potentially contribute systems.