From the Farm to the City: Exploring Agroecology, Food Communities and Claims Towards Eco-Welfare in Bologna

This Special Issue invites us to think about the conditions of possibility for sustainable welfare within the current political and ecological conjuncture. This paper approaches sustainable welfare through an analysis of transformative eco-social practices, highlighting the generative, experimental, situated, and territorial dimensions of ecological transition. Drawing on the case of Bologna, this study examines the initiatives of agroecological and food movements. This territorial case illustrates the intersection between welfare and agroecological transition, suggesting that welfare can play a proactive role in fostering socio-ecological transformation and reshaping key sectors such as agriculture and food systems. What I am calling agroecological welfare has the potential to connect diverse eco- social experiments with the emergence of new forms of social, economic, ecological, and regulatory governance.