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Agroecological innovation constructing socionatural order for social transformation: Two case studies in Brazil (2021)

Levidow, Les (Author)
Davis Sansolo (Author)
Monica Schiavinatto (Author)

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

URI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25729861.2020.1843318

DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2020.1843318

Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: Digital journal

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Case studies Green revolution Forests and forestry Sustainability Science and technology studies (STS) Agriculture Co-production 21st century Brazil

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 diálogos 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.

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