Agroecologia: in che modo essa può contribuire alla lotta contro i cambiamenti climatici e al raggiungimento di una società più equa e giusta.

As Hoesung Lee, president of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) declared, it is urgent, now more than ever, to address the climate crisis. In this, the global food system, composed by production, distribution, consumption and disposal of food, is the third industry responsible for the global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Only in 2015 it amounted to 34% of the total GHG emissions (Crippa, et al., 2021). Since the food system weighs heavily on the precarious ecosystem balance of the planet, it is necessary to invest human energy and economical resources on the alternatives to the traditional agricultural system. In this sense, the purpose of this work was to show that a transition toward an agroecological system is not only important and necessary for the fight against climate change, but it is also possible. It was possible to realize the analysis through the study of the case of Campi Aperti, an Italian peasant association that operates in the territory of Bologna and Emilia-Romagna. The research questions that raised were “To what extent is Campi Aperti contributing to the agroecological transition in the territory of Bologna and Emilia-Romagna? And in this sense, at what level are producers and co- producers involved?”. To realize the work of thesis, a qualitative approach was used, through fieldwork, participant observation and 14 semi-structured interviews. From them, it emerged that an agroecological transition is happening on the territory of Bologna and Emilia-Romagna, especially through a great involvement of the local population.