This paper “argues that agroecology is contesting and, at least in some places, effectively changing the main social relations of production in today’s agriculture.” 🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
“In this respect, [#agroecology] has a strategically important potential for allowing farmers to regain control over the labour process.”
“These practices have emerged as response to distortions in the process of agricultural production that arose as a consequence of increased dependency on external agents (the providers of inputs and technologies, banks, and processing industries)…
… and/or as a response to the unequal distribution of value in agricultural supply chains to which farmers1 are subjected.”
“….it is clearly shown that the organization of farming does not need to be scripted by the requirements of capital. Indeed it can be organized in a way that it is antithetical to those interests.”
“The organization and development of farms and farming does not need to follow the trajectory of scale-enlargement, technology-driven intensification and specialization.”
“The negative externalities that accompany this trajectory – such as the degradation of landscapes, the destruction of biodiversity, increased CO2 emissions, the weakening of regional rural economies and many more, are not inevitable.”
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