Agriculture, Food and Local Development Research and Application Laboratory (LOAF) aims to conduct academic research in the fields of food, agriculture and local development, to produce data-based information, to produce good practice-oriented good practices, which simultaneously contain the cause, effect and solution possibilities of the ecological crisis we are going through on a global and national scale. was established to develop models for the emergence and dissemination of examples. Sustainable agro-ecological agriculture practices, assurance and justice in accessing healthy food, strengthening local communities, increasing the management capacities of local governments, ensuring economic, social and cultural integration between rural and urban areas, and combating rural poverty are among the laboratory’s main areas of interest and work. Agriculture, Food and Local Development Research and Application Laboratory sees academia and practice as a spiral that feeds and reproduces each other and implements its work with this understanding. Research on Agricultural Transformations and New Peasants in Turkey aims to define the formation of the new peasantry (neopeasantry), which became visible after the 2000s, to determine the characteristics of the new peasants and to determine the transformations in the agricultural structures of the new peasantry.