Agroecology and Politics. How To Get Sustainability? About the Necessity for a Political Agroecology
By Manuel González de Molina. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 2012
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Agroecological movements are spreading and many local experiences are being carried out. But agroecology still has not developed instruments and approaches to elaborate state and regional strategies, where the political and institutional aspects play a key role. This text contributes to overcoming these oversights by means of a theoretical foundation that demonstrates why agroecology should engage politics. First, we argue that agroecosystems, as socioecological constructions, are produced through power relations. Second, we show the close relationship between agroecosystem dynamics and politics, and, therefore, the crucial role that political agroecology plays in the agroecological transition. Finally, we evaluate the world food system as the context in which agroecological experiences should be developed.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology, Plant Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Clarifying the socioeconomic dimensions of agroecology: between principles and practices (2016, unknown): “…capacity-building, and emancipating goals, integration of local and scientific knowledge, territorial dimension, mobilization by multiactor networks, and links with food sovereignty, might otherwise be neglected (Holt-Giménez and Altieri 2012; Stassart et al. 2012; Gonzalez de Molina 2013).”
- Agroecology territories: places for sustainable agricultural and food systems and biodiversity conservation (2016, background): “…as a science, movement and practice (Wezel et al. 2009; Wezel and Jauneau 2011), agroecology as a transdisciplinary, participatory, and action-oriented approach (Méndez, Bacon, and Cohen 2013), and agroecology as policy is emerging (Gonzalez de Molina 2013; Sevilla Guzmán and Woodgate 2013).”
- Climate-smart agriculture: what is it good for? (2018, background): “This embrace of pluralism, however, does not stretch to incorporating the socio-political content of agroecology, still less the questions of power and inequality that animate agrarian political economy traditions (Gonzalez de Molina 2013; Gliessman 2013; see also Méndez, Bacon and Cohen 2015).”