Deepening democracy for the governance toward just transitions in agri-food systems

In this paper, we explore the relation between democracy and justice in governing agri-food transitions. We argue that a deeper understanding of is needed to foster just First, present multi-dimensional transitions relate it scholarship on democratizing Then, three paradigm shifts are required overcome current unsustainable dynamics: (1) from expert toward pluralist understandings knowledge; (2) economic materialism post-growth strategies; (3) anthropocentrism reconnecting human-nature relationships. explicate what these entail for distributive, procedural, recognition restorative perspectives. Finally, highlight six challenges institutionalizing deep democratic governance. These balancing tensions between: multiple dimensions, urgency, top-down bottom-up directionalities, local global scales, realism idealism, roles incumbent scientific systems. This requires thoroughly rethinking transition studies’ normative ambitions.