Feliu López-i-Gelats is the co-director of the Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems for Social Transformation at University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), where he also teaches. He is an environmental social scientist trained in ecological economics and political ecology, 2004) and agroecology. His fundamental research line is agroecology and a critical view to the agrifood system, with the key hypothesis that small production and small consumption go with more sustainable and fairer agri-food systems. In particular, he has particular attention to examining the vulnerability and capacity of adaptation of smallholders to global environmental change, particularly pastoralists and beekeepers; examining the crisis of identity of agriculture and rural areas as a whole; examining the effectiveness of agroecological strategies, mainly community-based development strategies and employment of local traditional knowledge, to empower rural dwellers and small-scale producers; and finally examining the phenomenon of food waste.