Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
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The emergence of agroecology as a political tool in the Brazilian Landless Movement
This study examines how and why socially excluded peasant farmers in the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST) transitioned to ecological agriculture, or agroecology. Utilising the photo-elicitation method, I investigate the Cooperativa Agropecuária Vista Alegre (COOPAVA), one of the first cooperatives of the MST to make this transition, which has become a point of reference for the Movement. I analyse the formation of COOPAVA through the lens of transition theory, their early years and experiments, transition to agroecological practices, and establishment of an alternative form of rural peasant life. Drawing from this analysis, I identify the major socio-technical factors shaping how COOPAVA has constructed an ecological development alternative in the context of the industrialisation and commodification of agriculture in Brazil and globally. And finally, I argue that through engaging the natural world degraded by the dominant agricultural model, the families of COOPAVA have developed agroecology as a political tool with which to construct autonomy, agency and livelihood – transforming themselves, and their relationships with nature, each other and society.
The emergence of agroecology as a political tool in the Brazilian Landless Movement
This study examines how and why socially excluded peasant farmers in the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST) transitioned to ecological agriculture, or agroecology. Utilising the photo-elicitation method, I investigate the Cooperativa Agropecuária Vista Alegre (COOPAVA), one of the first cooperatives of the MST to make this transition, which has become a point of reference for the Movement. I analyse the formation of COOPAVA through the lens of transition theory, their early years and experiments, transition to agroecological practices, and establishment of an alternative form of rural peasant life. Drawing from this analysis, I identify the major socio-technical factors shaping how COOPAVA has constructed an ecological development alternative in the context of the industrialisation and commodification of agriculture in Brazil and globally. And finally, I argue that through engaging the natural world degraded by the dominant agricultural model, the families of COOPAVA have developed agroecology as a political tool with which to construct autonomy, agency and livelihood – transforming themselves, and their relationships with nature, each other and society.
The emergence of agroecology as a political tool in the Brazilian Landless Movement
Hernandez, Andreas (Autor:in)
Local Environment ; 25 ; 205-227
03.03.2020
23 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 1958