Situated agroecology massification and reclaiming university programs in Venezuela
Throughout the process of transformation since 1999 known as the Bolivarian Revolution, harsh class and food system contradictions have unfolded in Venezuela, pitting against one another the forces of the pervasive consumer culture favoring imported foods, the input-intensive Green Revolution agricultural model that represents a state-led push toward food self-sufficiency, and an emerging agroecological paradigm pushed forward by grassroots movements who have seized political openings through the largely supportive policy environment. The Bolivarian University of Venezuela, itself a product of the revolutionary process, founded the Program Degree in Agroecology (PDA) in 2004 to expand agroecological practices and knowledge, based on alternative pedagogical approaches. Over the next decade, over a thousand PDA graduates have come to occupy institutional spaces and productive projects in urban and rural areas, contributing to vertical and horizontal agroecological scaling. PDA graduates and educators play a key role in the growing movement of urban agriculture that confronts the economic crisis. The PDA has created key mediators in the form of human talent for territorializing agroecology and institutionalizing pro-peasant policy in Venezuela. As a political outlier, Venezuela is an important case for studying the strategies for territorializing what we refer to as socially committed, situated agroecology.
Main Authors: | Domené Painenao, Olga Evelyn Doctora autora 21630, Herrera, Francisco autor |
---|---|
Format: | Texto biblioteca |
Language: | eng |
Subjects: | Soberanía alimentaria, Escalamiento agroecológico, Conocimiento tradicional, Revolución bolivariana, Política pública, Educación superior, |
Online Access: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21683565.2019.1617223 |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Similar Items
-
Agroecología situada contexto, proceso y masifcación del Programa de Formación en Agroecología en Venezuela
by: Domené Painenao, Olga Evelyn Doctora autora 21630, et al. -
Can the state take agroecology to scale? Public policy experiences in agroecological territorialization from Latin American
by: Giraldo Palacio, Omar Felipe Doctor autor 12320, et al. -
The campesino a campesino agroecology movement in Cuba. Food sovereignty and food as a commons
by: Rosset, Peter Michael Doctor autor 12290, et al. -
Seed sovereignty and agroecological scaling two cases of seed recovery, conservation, and defense in Colombia
by: García López, Valeria Doctora autora 21022, et al. -
Escalamiento horizontal y profundo de la agroecología lecciones de dos organizaciones defensoras de la soberanía de semillas en Colombia
by: García López, Valeria Doctora autora 21022, et al.