Scaling Agroecology

Agroecology has the responsibility of building sustainable food systems and reducing the corporate food regime's (CFR) excessive metabolic profile without increasing social or territorial inequality. Political Agroecology proposes to restructure dominant economic processes in the CFR reestablishing circularity between agriculture and nature. The role of Political Agroecology is to design and produce institutions that promote the agroecological transition in that direction. As a social practice, Agroecology is expressed in the diversity and creativity of the forms of resistance and struggle found among peasants, in particular their strategies for constructing autonomy from the input and labor markets. Political Agroecology provides theoretical and methodological references to support institutional innovation processes allowing to apply an agroecological view of sociotechnical change to ever greater scales. The territory is a privileged locus where the agroecological approach has been applied for the sociomaterial transformation of food production and supply systems.