Agroecology as social movement and practice in Cabrera’s peasant reserve zone, Colombia

Osorio, Álvaro Acevedo; Chohan, Jaskiran K

doi:10.1080/21683565.2019.1623359

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“…The particularly serious environmental effects produced by the current conventional agriculture model has provoked reactions from different sectors of society, including academics, farmers, and consumers, who propose alternative agricultural systems, some of which are based on the paradigm of agroecology Altieri and Nicholls, 2000;Acevedo-Osorio and Chohan, 2019).…”

Section: The Main Agroecological Structure Of Agroecosystems (Mas): A...mentioning

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Drones and Geographical Information Technologies in Agroecology and Organic Farming Contributions to Technological Sovereignty

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Diantini²,

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2022

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The United Nations decade of ecosystem restoration (2021)(2022)(2023)(2024)(2025)(2026)(2027)(2028)(2029)(2030), the Glashow Climate Pact (November 2021) reaffirms the role of Nature Based Solutions in the fight against climate change and in building shared adaptation solutions. The Glashow Climate Pact highlights the importance of ensuring the integrity of all ecosystems, the protection of biodiversity "recognized by some cultures as Mother Earth, the importance for some of the concept of 'climate justice', when taking action to address climate change".In April 2020 Boaventura de Souza Santos published the "Cruel Pedagogy of Virus" focusing on how the COVID pandemic/syndemic has arrived at the end of six decades of uneven development and highlights the global predatory capitalism and patriarchy embodied in many development discourses, consolidating social exclusion, resource extraction, human and nature domination, environmental injustice, and accumulation by dispossession.Deconstructing development, sustainable development, sustainable growth asks for recognizing practices of critical development, alternative development, alternatives to development, post-development to embrace what Max-Neef called "the development at human scale".Change starts from new practices, challenging the menu of globalizing universalizing development theories and initiatives to inhabit pluriverses of words and worlds.Agroecology, as young science that is about to turn a century, can contribute in various ways to the current challenges of facing environmental and climate emergency, halting biodiversity loss, pursuing just food systems.The indigenous, peasant, and environmental movements of active citizenship, inspired by agroecology, promote food sovereignty, just food systems, the collaboration between food producers and consumers, the renewed alliance between natural, agricultural and urban ecosystems, technological sovereignty, innovation attentive to human rights.This book explores the challenges posed by the new geographic information technologies in agroecology and organic farming. It discusses the differences among technology-laden conventional farming systems and the role of technologies in strengthening the potential of agroecology and organic farming. In conventional thinking, the use of new technologies is an almost exclusive domain vi Preface

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confidence: 99%

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2022

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The agroecological movement. A panoramic view

Giraldo

2024

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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The moral economy of defence of territory and the political economy of extractivism in the Polochic valley, Guatemala

Konforti

2022

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Since the turn of the 21st century, sugarcane, oil palm, and nickel mining have transformed the Polochic valley lowlands in northeastern Guatemala. These industries have been met with different forms of resistance from local indigenous Q'eqchi' agrarian communities operating under the banner of “defence of territory” (DOT). In this paper, I argue that the concept of moral economy can help understand why the arrival of different (agro)extractive industries were met with different levels of resistance by Q'eqchi' communities. The key elements of the local moral economy that informs DOT in the Polochic lowlands are customary territorial practices, paternalistic class relationships, and rising livelihood expectations. The degree to which this moral economy was violated by different industries helps explain variegated responses and outcomes, particularly why sugarcane company Chabil Utzaj was met with widespread and sustained resistance that ultimately led to its decision to cease operations. This moral economy was itself shaped by previous cycles of agrarian change and continues to shape present‐day political contestation.

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Agroecology as social movement and practice in Cabrera’s peasant reserve zone, Colombia

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

Drones and Geographical Information Technologies in Agroecology and Organic Farming Contributions to Technological Sovereignty

Drones and Geographical Information Technologies in Agroecology and Organic Farming Contributions to Technological Sovereignty

The agroecological movement. A panoramic view

The moral economy of defence of territory and the political economy of extractivism in the Polochic valley, Guatemala

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