Agroecological innovation constructing socionatural order for social transformation: two case studies in Brazil

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dc.contributor.authorLevidow, Les
dc.contributor.authorSansolo, Davis [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorSchiavinatto, Monica [UNESP]
dc.contributor.institutionOpen University
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-25T10:53:52Z
dc.date.available2021-06-25T10:53:52Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-01
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en
dc.description.affiliationDevelopment Policy and Practice (DPP) Group School of Social Sciences and Global Studies (SSGS) Open University
dc.description.affiliationInstituto de Políticas Públicas e Relações Internacionais (IPPRI) Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.description.affiliationUnespInstituto de Políticas Públicas e Relações Internacionais (IPPRI) Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.description.sponsorshipArts and Humanities Research Council
dc.description.sponsorshipGlobal Challenges Research Fund
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2020.1843318
dc.identifier.citationTapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, v. 4, n. 1, 2021.
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/25729861.2020.1843318
dc.identifier.issn2572-9861
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85101628476
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/207359
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofTapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectagroecological innovation
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectsocio-environmental technologies
dc.subjectsolidarity economy
dc.subjectSTS co-production theory
dc.titleAgroecological innovation constructing socionatural order for social transformation: two case studies in Brazilen
dc.titleLa innovación agroecológica construyendo el orden socionatural para la transformación social: dos estudios de caso brasileñoses
dc.titleInovação agroecológica construindo ordem socionatural para transformação social: dois estudos de caso brasileirospt
dc.typeArtigo
unesp.author.orcid0000-0002-7481-0044[1]

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