Bringing agroecology to scale: key drivers and emblematic cases

Cacho, Mateo Mier y Terán Giménez; Giraldo, Omar Felipe; Aldasoro, Miriam; Morales, Helda; Ferguson, Bruce G.; Rosset, Peter; Khadse, Ashlesha; Campos, Carmen

doi:10.1080/21683565.2018.1443313

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“…Both trends can be seen in Nicaragua. Historically, Nicaragua was important to the consolidation of LVC as a movement and its framing of food sovereignty (Edelman 2008;Godek 2015;Mier Y Terán Giménez Cacho et al 2018); currently, multiple networks link national organizations with regional and global agroecological institutions. Hence, Nicaraguan agroecology is part of the process of "glocalization," in which local practices are informed by (and in turn form part of and inform) an emerging global TIS, a "community that shares cognitive, formal and normative rules" (Schot and Geels 2008, 543).…”

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Exploring barriers to the agroecological transition in Nicaragua: A Technological Innovation Systems Approach

Schiller¹,

Klerkx

Poortvliet

et al. 2019

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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Latin America has historically been a vanguard of agroecology. In Nicaragua, an agroecological transition is occurring, with three decades of building a groundswell based on the farmerto-farmer movement and the recent institutionalization of agroecology in national law. Yet, problems remain with agroecology's diffusion. We introduce the Technological Innovation Systems approach to examine systemic barriers to the agroecological transition and cycles of blockages caused by barriers' interactions. Based on qualitative data from north-central Nicaragua, we find the main barriers hindering the agroecological transition include weak guidance of the search for agroecology, insufficient capacities and quantities of resources, and lacking market development. Beyond the Nicaragua case, the analysis points at the importance of using socio-technical systems analysis to better understand and address the root causes behind issues blocking national agroecological transitions.

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Exploring barriers to the agroecological transition in Nicaragua: A Technological Innovation Systems Approach

Schiller¹,

Klerkx

Poortvliet

et al. 2019

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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“…Examples include the Market for Safe, Locally-Grown Food 1 ; the School Garden Network, the Cacao Solidario cooperative of consumers and producers 2 ; the Slow Food Convivium "Jovel Kun Kun" 3 ; Women and Corn 4 ; and the Urban Agricultural Network "Sembrando Jovel" ("Seeding San Cristóbal) 5 . We ask ourselves whether these groups are the beginning of an agroecological movement toward FS in the city, and whether the necessary social and political conditions exist there for present small initiatives to scale up to include the majority of the residents (Parmentier 2014;Mier y Terán et al 2018).…”

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Food Sovereignty in the city?: A methodological proposal for evaluating food sovereignty in urban settings

García-Sempere

Morales

Hidalgo

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Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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Although the possibility of achieving food sovereignty in urban environments is controversial, we believe that food sovereignty is attainable. In this work we propose a methodology for evaluating it, then test that proposal using San Cristóbal de Las Casas as a case study. For this purpose, we used a participative methodology to construct a system of food-sovereignty indicators for urban settings. After review and validation by participants and a group of experts, that system consisted of 30 indicators. We tested it by using it to survey households in San Cristóbal. We found that the set of 30 indicators is coherent with the principles of food sovereignty, and that it enabled us to reveal the alimentary vulnerability of the city's families. We hope that the principles that form the basis for the proposed methodology will be applicable when designing instruments for assessing other cities' levels of food sovereignty.

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“…The complex analysis of diverse factors that constitute resilience, with an emphasis on AS and the capacity of collective agency, allows for an understanding of substantial aspects in need of transformation. This allows peasants to generate their own development dynamics based on their own interests and needs, favors processes of empowerment for implementing radical changes in the generation of public policy, access to resources and capital, and potential for autonomy (62–65). In this sense resilience refers to social change and challenges the status quo to give place to alternative scenarios (1,22,23,26).…”

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Agroecosystem resilience. A conceptual and methodological framework for evaluation

Cordoba

Triviño

Toro

2019

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AbstractThis article proposes a conceptual and methodological framework for analyzing agroecosystem resilience, which incorporates agrarian structure and peasant community agency. The methodology is applied to a comparison of two peasant communities in Latin America (Brazil and Colombia), emphasizing the capacity to transform unsustainable power structures in place of adapting to them. This application demonstrates that when agency is strongly developed, as in the case of Brazil, it is possible to transform structural conditions that restrict resilience. The inclusion and consideration of biophysical variables, management practices, agrarian structure and agency, through a participatory approach, allows for the identification of factors that inhibit or potentiate the resilience of agroecosystems.

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Bringing agroecology to scale: key drivers and emblematic cases

Cited by 263 publications

References 44 publications

Exploring barriers to the agroecological transition in Nicaragua: A Technological Innovation Systems Approach

Exploring barriers to the agroecological transition in Nicaragua: A Technological Innovation Systems Approach

Food Sovereignty in the city?: A methodological proposal for evaluating food sovereignty in urban settings

Agroecosystem resilience. A conceptual and methodological framework for evaluation

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