Las transiciones agroecológicas
Sustainable food production through the principles of agroecology implies several simultaneous transitions at different scales, levels and dimensions, of a social, biological, economic, cultural, institutional, political nature. To describe these transitions the use of different conceptual framew...
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| Publicado en: | Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/fichas.php?idobjeto=13690 |
| Sumario: | Sustainable food production through the principles of agroecology implies several
simultaneous transitions at different scales, levels and dimensions, of a social, biological,
economic, cultural, institutional, political nature. To describe these transitions the use of
different conceptual frameworks, derived from ecology, agronomy and the science of innovation,
are proposed. The article addresses the agroecological transition as a succession of
emerging innovations and analyses the stages of the technical-institutional transition and
its drivers. It is also proposed to conceptualize the transition as a restoration of the functions
and resilience of the socio-ecosystem. Finally, we explore with a couple of examples
what the transition implies in terms of changes in agricultural management practices. The
agroecological transition can involve the optimization of management practices to increase
productive efficiency, an inputs substitution, or the redesign of the system. The examples
analyzed show that the transition does not always start from highly industrialized and/
or degraded systems. Many producers who do not consider themselves agroecological
implement however many agroecological-based practices. It is concluded that the transit
to agroecology implies a technical-productive transition at the subsystems of the farm, a
socio-ecological transition at the level of the rural family, its community and its landscape,
and a political-institutional transition to level of territories, regions and countries. Understanding
the transition as an interdependence between scales and dimensions, allows to
reconcile the looks of the different ´schools´ of agroecology, from the most ecological to the
most socio-political. |
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