Political agroecology : advancing the transition to sustainable food systems / Manuel Gonzalez de Molina...[et al.]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González de Molina, Manuel, author.

Garrido Peña, Francisco, author.

Petersen, Paulo Frederico, author.

Contributor:

Caporal, Francisco Roberto, editor.

Series:

Advances in agroecology.

Advances in Agroecology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply.

Sustainable agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Taylor & Francis, 2019.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

The book proposes theoretical, practical and epistemological foundations of a new theoretical and practical field of work for agroecologists: Political Agroecology.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780429428821

0429428820

9780429768156

042976815X

OCLC:

1402110451