Pandemic Research for the People

The Pandemic Research for the People (PReP) focuses on how agriculture might be reimagined as the kind of community-wide intervention that could stop coronaviruses and other pathogens from emerging in the first place. We address how mainstream science supports the same political and economic systems that helped produce the pandemic. We introduce agroecology, an environmentalism of the peasantry, the poor, and indigenous, long in existence, that treats agriculture as a part of the ecology out of which humanity grows its food. Agroecology–a science, movement, and practice–combines ecological science, indigenous and peasant knowledges, and social movements for food and territorial sovereignty to achieve environmentally just food systems.