Reconnecting Farmers with Nature through Agroecological Transitions: Interacting Niches and Experimentation and the Role of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems

Sustainability transitions in agriculture are explored through an analysis of niche initiatives within a common production system, relying on sustainable transitions, multi-level perspectives, and agroecological frameworks, involving multi-actor, agricultural knowledge, innovation systems (AKIS). The article focuses how experimental niches activities affect farmers’ relationships with nature, the reconceptualisation system which they operate, particularly where this is embedded less conventional or dominant regimes landscapes. need for fundamental changes, way that humans interact widely argued order to achieve development, farmers occupy central role participation complex networks agri-food systems. They have also found themselves disconnected from nature agri-industrial practices. Four (biological control, ecological restoration, soil health, pond management) greenhouse sector Almeria (SE Spain) case study. Our results indicate farmer’s interaction functional, but practices, deeper understanding ecosystems landscapes may be gained. As become more connected benefit ecosystem services, can transition