| Title | Agroecological innovation constructing socionatural order for social transformation: two case studies in Brazil |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 32384 |
| Authors | Levidow, L; Sansolo, D; Schiavinatto, M |
| Title | Agroecological innovation constructing socionatural order for social transformation: two case studies in Brazil |
| Year | 2021 |
| Published | Tapuya-Latin American Science Technology And Society, 4, 1 |
| Abstract | The Green Revolution exemplifies the capital-intensive modernization model of resource plunder and labor exploitation. This has provoked small-scale producers and civil society groups to counterpose an agroecology-based solidarity economy (EcoSol-agroecology), especially in Latin America. But their efforts encounter dominant models - of innovation, management, markets, nature, etc. - which limit alternatives. To clarify a transformative agenda, advocates have elaborated agroecological innovation through several complementary practices. Nature is framed as agri-biodiversity complementing socio-cultural diversity. Short food-supply chains (circuitos curtos) build consumer support for production methods enhancing producers' livelihoods, providing socio-economic equity and conserving natural resources. Through dialogos de saberes, i.e. knowledge exchange among farmers and with external experts, cultivation and water-management methods are designed or adapted as socio-environmental technologies. Capacities are built for collective self-management of those solidarity relationships. In such ways, agroecological innovation co-produces specific forms of nature, technoscientific knowledge and society; their practices construct a distinctive socionatural order. Such order arises through several instruments - making identities, institutions and discourses - as understood by STS co-production theory. Here this theory illuminates two Brazilian agroforestry initiatives whose cooperative practices seek to transform their own participants' lives and wider agri-food systems. By combining diverse sources, composite cultures deepen the social basis of territorial belonging. |
| https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/25729861.2020.1843318?needAccess=true |
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