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Editors
Julia Wright has a background in international research and development, seeking to integrate
ecological (organic and permaculture) thinking into conventional agricultural systems and organisations, including in humanitarian settings. After studying at Trinity St David (University of Wales),
Silsoe College (Cranfeld University) and Wye College (London University), she worked for some
years in South America before undertaking a PhD at Wageningen University, The Netherlands,
on the coping strategies of the Cuban farming sector during the country’s period of food and fuel
shortages in the 1990s, resulting in the Earthscan publication Sustainable Agriculture and Food
Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba (2009). Returning to the UK in 2003 to lead
the International Programme of the organic NGO Garden Organic (formerly the Henry Doubleday
Research Association), in 2011 she was involved in establishing the Centre for Agroecology, Water
and Resilience at Coventry University, where she has since been developing a research programme
in the applied discipline of Subtle Agroecologies.
Dr Nicholas Parrott has been a freelance English-language editor since 2002, providing support
to non-native English-speaking academics and NGOs for the publishing of books, articles, reports
and doctoral theses on sustainability, agroecology and rural development. Prior to this, he was a
research associate at the universities of Aberystwyth and Cardiff, and a European Parliamentary
candidate for the UK Green Party. He has lived and worked in Wageningen, the Netherlands, and
Brussels, Belgium, and is now based in Hendaye, south-west France. One of his most important
works is The Real Green Revolution: Organic and Agroecological Farming in the South (Parrot
and Marsden, 2002), which has been translated into multiple languages. His company has clients
from around 20 different countries (www.TextualHealing.eu).
Editors
Julia Wright has a background in international research and development, seeking to integrate
ecological (organic and permaculture) thinking into conventional agricultural systems and organisations, including in humanitarian settings. After studying at Trinity St David (University of Wales),
Silsoe College (Cranfeld University) and Wye College (London University), she worked for some
years in South America before undertaking a PhD at Wageningen University, The Netherlands,
on the coping strategies of the Cuban farming sector during the country’s period of food and fuel
shortages in the 1990s, resulting in the Earthscan publication Sustainable Agriculture and Food
Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba (2009). Returning to the UK in 2003 to lead
the International Programme of the organic NGO Garden Organic (formerly the Henry Doubleday
Research Association), in 2011 she was involved in establishing the Centre for Agroecology, Water
and Resilience at Coventry University, where she has since been developing a research programme
in the applied discipline of Subtle Agroecologies.
Dr Nicholas Parrott has been a freelance English-language editor since 2002, providing support
to non-native English-speaking academics and NGOs for the publishing of books, articles, reports
and doctoral theses on sustainability, agroecology and rural development. Prior to this, he was a
research associate at the universities of Aberystwyth and Cardiff, and a European Parliamentary
candidate for the UK Green Party. He has lived and worked in Wageningen, the Netherlands, and
Brussels, Belgium, and is now based in Hendaye, south-west France. One of his most important
works is The Real Green Revolution: Organic and Agroecological Farming in the South (Parrot
and Marsden, 2002), which has been translated into multiple languages. His company has clients
from around 20 different countries (www.TextualHealing.eu).