Enric Tello is an environmental historian and retired professor in the Department of Economic History, Institutions, Policy and World Economy at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona (UB). He was principal investigator of multidisciplinary research teams on agroecology transitions and sustainability of agri-food systems. From the International Research project on “Sustainable Farm Systems: Long-term Socioecological Metabolism of Western Agriculture” (SFS), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in 2012-2018, and up to now, these teams have developed new biophysical and social models of agroecosystems to understand how their matter and energy circularity gives rise to diverse and complex agroecology landscapes able to host more biodiversity and provide ecosystem services to society. They also address social and gender inequalities in agri-food systems.

Relying on them, they have developed a Sustainable Agroecological Farm Reproductive Analysis (SAFRA) to help scaling up best organic farming at the plot or farm level into agroecology landscapes and more sustainable food systems with a circular bioeconomy. This bottom-up programming model searches through optimization analysis for different feasible ways to integrate current best farming practices into desirable agroecology landscapes and food territories as a tool to help improve deliberative future workshops in participatory action research of agroecology partnerships. 

He taught an Agroecology Module in the master’s on "Agricultural Heritage" taught by the University of Florence on behalf of the FAO’s Programme on "Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems" (GIAHS); and a Module on "Food Systems Transformation" in the CHARM-EU master’s in "Global Challenges for Sustainability". He was member of the Agroecology Task Force of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR-AE) of the European Commission that wrote the SRIA on Horizon Europe projects to accelerate agroecology transitions. Now member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SciSAB) of these agroecology partnerships calls.