Agroecology and La Via Campesina II. Peasant agroecology schools and the formation of a sociohistorical and political subject

Rosset, Peter; Val, Valentín; Barbosa, Lia Pinheiro; McCune, Nils

doi:10.1080/21683565.2019.1617222

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“…These horizontal processes can have an intentionally multi-scalar character (e.g., spread from one locality to another and from the local to the international level). For example, La Via Campesina has been developing and systematizing social learning processes, including agroecology schools, in and between different territories and regions of the world [69,70].…”

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From Transition to Domains of Transformation: Getting to Sustainable and Just Food Systems through Agroecology

Bruil²,

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The acceleration of ecological crises has driven a growing body of thinking on sustainability transitions. Agroecology is being promoted as an approach that can address multiple crises in the food system while addressing climate change and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals. Beyond the more technical definition as, “the ecology of food systems”, agroecology has a fundamentally political dimension. It is based on an aspiration towards autonomy or the agency of networks of producers and citizens to self-organize for sustainability and social justice. In this article, we use the multi-level perspective (MLP) to examine agroecology transformations. Although the MLP has been helpful in conceptualizing historic transitions, there is a need to better understand: (a) the role of and potential to self-organize in the context of power in the dominant regime, and (b) how to shift to bottom-up forms of governance—a weak point in the literature. Our review analyzes the enabling and disabling conditions that shape agroecology transformations and the ability of communities to self-organize. We develop the notion of ‘domains of transformation’ as overlapping and interconnected interfaces between agroecology and the incumbent dominant regime. We present six critical domains that are important in agroecological transformations: access to natural ecosystems; knowledge and culture; systems of exchange; networks; discourse; and gender and equity. The article focuses on the dynamics of power and governance, arguing that a shift from top down technocratic approaches to bottom up forms of governance based on community-self organization across these domains has the most potential for enabling transformation for sustainability and social justice.

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From Transition to Domains of Transformation: Getting to Sustainable and Just Food Systems through Agroecology

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“…Food sovereignty, for its part, places peasants as the central collective political meta-subject destined to produce and provide food to society ("Food sovereignty gives us the hope and power to preserve, recover and build on our food producing knowledge and capacity. Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems" [9] (p. 1)), defying the corporate food regime's agri-food model, its territorial impacts, and its ideological framework [9][10][11][12].…”

Section: Literature Review: Political Formation and The Ideological Rmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Under the concept of food sovereignty, peasants are (re)signified and attributed multiple meanings associated with the defense of territories, agroecological practices, small-scale production, local markets, the non-commodification of natural resources, resistance and struggle for access to land, the defense of ancestral seeds, the protection of common goods, sustainable production, and appropriate science and technologies [19,20]. The notion of "agroecological peasantry" is developed around that of food sovereignty [9][10][11][12], and processes for productive and cultural "re-peasantization" are promoted, both in peasant organizations and within the collective political narrative of the Food Sovereignty Movement (FSM) [21].…”

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Forging Political Cadres for Re-Peasantization: Escuela de Acción Campesina (Spain)

Hernández

2021

Sustainability

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Bolstering the political formation of agrarian organizations has become a priority for La Vía Campesina and the Food Sovereignty Movement. This paper addresses the Spanish case study of the Escuela de Acción Campesina (EAC)—(Peasant Action School), which is a tool for political formation in the Global North in which the philosophical and pedagogical principles of the “peasant pedagogies” of the Training Schools proposed by La Vía Campesina are put into practice within an agrarian organization in Spain and in alliance with the rest of the Spanish Food Sovereignty Movement. The study was carried out over the course of the 10 years of activist research, spanning the entire process for the construction and development of the EAC. Employing an ethnographic methodology, information was collected through participant observation, ethnographic interviews, a participatory workshop, and reviews of internal documents. The paper presents the context in which the EAC arose, its pedagogical dynamics, the structure and the ideological contents implemented for the training of new cadres, and how there are three key areas in the training process: (1) the strengthening of collective union and peasant identity, (2) training in the “peasant” ideological proposal, and (3) the integration of students as new cadres into the organizations’ structures. It is concluded that the EAC is a useful tool in the ideological re-peasantization process of these organizations.

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“…Nivel macroeconómico: lo rural en América Latina El análisis de la cuestión rural resulta un tema recurrente en el desarrollo de las ciencias sociales y los estudios latinoamericanos, más aún la relevancia de la caracterización del sujeto "campesino/a" en la exploración de la dinámica agraria ha alentado el surgimiento de múltiples miradas políticas, económicas y sociológicas del hecho rural en América Latina (Rosset y Martínez Torres 2012). En gran medida, el debate que atraviesa a las indagaciones del mundo rural, como hemos señalado, ha puesto en cuestión la supuesta extinción de la noción de "campesinado" (Bernstein et al 2018) en tanto adquieren relieve quienes integran esa multiforme categoría de campesino (Rosset et al 2019;Bretón 2013). No obstante, entre los análisis económicos, productivos y sociológicos de la ruralidad latinoamericana, existe un intersticio de tiempo y acción que genera inquietudes teórico-políticas; sobre esas inquietudes se ubica el conjunto de interrogantes que nos introducen a nuestro análisis: el campesinado en clave de organización social y política territorial (Shanin 1979;Nogueira 2017).…”

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Espacio rural e implicaciones territoriales de la acción estatal: identidad, persistencia y derechos campesinos en Malargüe, Argentina

Soto

Navarrete

2020

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El presente trabajo es un recorte teórico-histórico de una indagación más amplia en curso, cuyo objetivo es comprender las relaciones existentes entre las formas de vida comunitaria –campesinas e indígenas– en espacios periféricos y el desarrollo de las dinámicas estatales locales, nacionales y regionales que inciden en las configuraciones identitarias y territoriales. Se presenta parte del desarrollo investigativo con la intención de dar cuenta del predominio de la subsistencia rural de Malargüe (tanto campesina como indígena), sustentada en tipos de ganadería extensiva en zonas áridas, llevada a cabo por “puesteros/as”, en un territorio en el cual se evidencia la ineficacia estatal en el desarrollo de políticas públicas dirigidas al sector. Relatamos aquí la metodología, antecedentes y marco conceptual de nuestra tarea, para luego resaltar las notas principales respecto a la permanencia territorial del campesinado malargüino en sentido proporcional a la aplicación de políticas estandarizadas y deficientes, pese al auge discursivo en favor de la ruralidad local.

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Agroecology and La Via Campesina II. Peasant agroecology schools and the formation of a sociohistorical and political subject

Cited by 56 publications

References 24 publications

From Transition to Domains of Transformation: Getting to Sustainable and Just Food Systems through Agroecology

From Transition to Domains of Transformation: Getting to Sustainable and Just Food Systems through Agroecology

Forging Political Cadres for Re-Peasantization: Escuela de Acción Campesina (Spain)

Espacio rural e implicaciones territoriales de la acción estatal: identidad, persistencia y derechos campesinos en Malargüe, Argentina

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