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leap back.” In terms of both technology and ecology, resilience refers to a capac- ity to resist breaking, to confront and overcome adversities.In the current food system, there are a number of adversities that upset the natural and social equilibrium of the planet. While some of these are not directly attributed to human activity, such as natural disasters, others are increasingly of anthropic origin. Unfortunately we feel we must agree with the definition of our era as “An- thropocene,” coined by Nobel-prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen: An era that humans influence so heavily that they are able to alter the planet on a geological scale. Countless human activities are profoundly changing the planet’s equilib- rium and undermining communities’ very survival: intensive monocultures, based on the use of chemicals in order to work the land at forced rhythms, oriented only towards the need to satisfy the all-important market; livestock farms that care nothing for animal welfare, shutting thousands of animals in confined spaces; the deforestation of the Amazon jungle to transform it into a vast pasture; mindless overbuilding, which takes more and more land away from agriculture and devas-9