Agribusiness, (Neo)Extractivism and Food Sovereignty: Latin America at a Crossroads? (original) (raw)
In Ecuador, specifically in the agrifood sector, populism is exercised through different strategies, which up the power strategies, had put land, the peasants' labour, productive practices and consumption patterns at the service of capitalist accumulation, reterritorializing the capitalist model. In this scenario, agroecology, is proposed as a science, practice and movement to transform the agrifood system. To allow the transition it is necessary to relocate agroecology in to a contrahegemonic process, and to re-evaluate the role of social movements. This document pretends to contribute to this discussion. From the analysis of the action repertoires of the Agroecological Collective of Ecuador, in the frame of Gramsci's thinking, the CAE is recognized as a collective political subject. Politics, spatial relations and the production of political subjects are identified as the main strategies that allow them to promote resistance and the reterritorialization of agroecology. How...