Political Agroecology : Advancing the Transition to Sustainable Food Systems.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (219 pages)
- Advances in Agroecology Series .
- Advances in Agroecology Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Cover Art by Lucia Vignoli -- Table of contents -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- 1 Theoretical Foundations of Political Agroecology -- 1.1 Political Agroecology: A Tentative Definition -- 1.2 A Thermodynamic Approach to Society -- 1.3 A Socioecological View of Society: Social Metabolism -- 1.4 Social Entropy -- 1.5 Institutions and Social Inequity -- 1.6 Politics and Entropy -- 1.7 Political Institutions: The Trade-off Between Social and Physical Entropy -- 1.8 Conflict, Protest, and Metabolic Change -- 1.9 Politics in Agroecosystems -- 1.10 Funds and flows in Agrarian Metabolism -- 1.11 The Organization and Dynamics of Agrarian Metabolism -- 1.12 Agroecological Transition and Food Regime Change -- 2 The Industrialization of Agriculture and the Enlargement of the Food Chain -- 2.1 The Origins of Industrial Agriculture -- 2.2 The Institutional Framework: Private Property and Market -- 2.3 The First Globalization: The Emergence of Food Regimes -- 2.4 Green Revolution and the Second Food Regime -- 2.5 The Main Drivers of Agricultural Industrialization -- 2.6 Beyond Agriculture: The Food System -- 2.7 A Third Food Regime? -- 3 A Regime on the Road to Collapse -- 3.1 The Physical Impossibility of Economic Growth -- 3.2 Metabolic Crisis and Capital Accumulation: A Marxist Reading -- 3.3 Industrial Agriculture: An Inefficient and Harmful Model that is Exhausted -- 3.4 Evidences of an Announced Collapse -- 3.5 "Business as Usual" Is Not an Option for The Future: Looking for Alternatives -- 4 Cognitive Frameworks and Institutional Design for an Agroecological Transition -- 4.1 The Cognitive Frameworks of Political Agroecology -- 4.1.1 Cognitive Principles of Political Agroecology: Ideology. 4.1.2 Eight Solid Principles of Cooperative Management of Natural Resources: Institutional Design -- 4.1.3 Agroecological Effects of Cooperative Institutional Design -- 4.2 An Institutional Design for Agroecological Resilience -- 4.2.1 Origin and Negentropic Function of Institutions -- 4.2.2 Scales and the "Social Point" of Cooperative Institutions -- 4.3 Diversity of Basic-scale Agroecological Institutions (The Firm) -- 4.3.1 The Family Institution as a Preferential Agroecological Firm -- 4.3.2 A Cooperative Institution as a Preferential Model of Agroecological firm -- 4.3.3 Local Markets -- 4.3.4 Long Chains of Agroecological Trade -- 4.3.5 Agroecological Districts -- 4.3.6 Virtual Local Currencies -- 4.4 Democratic Governance and Diffuse State for the Agroecological Transition -- 4.4.1 Agroecology as Collective Multilevel Action -- 4.4.2 Normative Action and Popular Sovereignty as a Procedure -- 4.4.3 Cooperative Democracy -- 4.4.4 Deliberative Democracy -- 5 Scaling Agroecology -- 5.1 The Nature of Change: The Metamorphosis of the Food System -- 5.2 A Strategy for Change: Scaling Up Agroecology -- 5.3 Peasant Agriculture: The Cocoons of Agroecological Metamorphosis -- 5.4 Countermovements Favoring the De-commodification of Food Systems -- 5.5 Scaling Up Territories -- 5.6 LOCK-INS and Systemic Rejection -- 5.7 Patriarchy as a Political-Cultural Obstacle to Agroecology -- 5.8 Agroecological-oriented Local Food Systems -- 6 The Agents of the Agroecological Transition -- 6.1 "Food Populism": Building Social Majorities of Change -- 6.2 Peasants: Central Actors in the Agroecological Transition -- 6.3 Peasant Conditions under Capitalism and Agricultural Industrialization -- 6.4 The "New Peasants" -- 6.5 Agroecology and Feminism: The Central Role of Women -- 6.6 Politicizing Food -- 6.7 Agroecological Movements as "New Green" Movements. 7 The Role of the State and Public Policies -- 7.1 Public Policies from a Political Agroecology Perspective -- 7.2 Experiences in Public Policies Favoring Agroecology -- 7.3 Main Conclusions of the Analysis of Public Policies -- 7.4 Public Policies to Scale Up Agroecology -- 7.5 An Agroecological Approach to the Design and Implementation of Public Policies -- 7.6 Public Policies That Lead to Scaling Up -- 7.6.1 Program for the Construction of Cisterns, Brazilian Semiarid Region -- 7.6.2 Organic Agriculture Program in Cuba -- 7.6.3 Organic Foods for Social Consumption in Andalusia, Spain -- 7.6.4 Biofertilization and Biological Control Input Programs in Cuba -- 7.6.5 The National Policy of Technical Assistance and Rural Extension, Brazil -- 7.6.6 Institutional Purchasing, Brazil -- 7.6.7 Olive "Residues" Composting Program in Andalusia, Spain -- 7.6.8 ProHuerta's Program, Argentina -- 7.6.9 The National Policy of Agroecology and Organic Production, Brazil -- 7.6.10 State Policy on Organic Farming (2004) and Organic Mission (2010), Sikkim, India -- 7.6.11 Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (2015) -- 7.6.12 Advances in Professional Training and Support for the Organization of Agroecology Hubs... -- References -- Index.
The book proposes theoretical, practical and epistemological foundations of a new theoretical and practical field of work for agroecologists: Political Agroecology.