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Levidow, Les; Sansolo, Davis and Schiavinatto, Monica
(2021).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2020.1843318
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 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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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Research Partnership for an Agroecology-Based Solidarity Economy (AgroEcos) in Bolivia and Brazil AH/T004274/1 AHRC, UKRI - Keywords
- STS co-production theory; agroecological innovation; solidarity economy; socioenvironmental technologies; Brazil
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Development
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
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Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD)
Global Challenges and Social Justice - Copyright Holders
- © 2021 Les Levidow, © 2021 Davis Sansolo, © 2021 Monica Schiavinatto
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- Les Levidow