**About the Editors**

**Jos´e Luis Vicente-Vicente** (PhD) is a postdoctoral environmental scientist at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), currently focused on assessing the biophysical impacts of the implementation of agri-food initiatives in alternative food networks within the EU FoodSHIFT2030 project. He assesses how agroecology can play a key role to the transformation of the agri-food systems. In order to achieve this, he is also working on how foodshed and potential food self-sufficiency analyses can contribute to the transformation. He also works on climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture, participating in different research on this topic and being an expert reviewer in some IPCC reports.

**Cristina Quintas-Soriano** (PhD) is a Marie Curie researcher at the University of Almer´ıa (Spain). Currently, she is the principal investigator of the SCALABLE project on "Social-ecological pathways and gender perspectives for future conservation of biocultural mountain agroecosystems". Her interests cover the impacts of land abandonment on rural social–ecological systems and how participatory approaches and the incorporation of gender lenses can reveal sustainable options for managing rural areas.

**Maria D. L ´opez-Rodr´ıguez** (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Almer´ıa and associated researcher at the Universitad Oberta de Catalunya (Spain). Her main area of research is focused on conducting inter- and trans-disciplinary research to bridge the links between science and other parts of society in order to advance the governance of social–ecological systems in different cultural, social, and institutional frameworks. Her motivation is to conduct research so that scientific knowledge can be a driver of societal learning and policy changes to advance towards sustainability.
