EcoSol-agroecología construyen circuitos cortos solidarios por proximidades societales:

Experiencias en Brasil y Bolivia

Abstract

In Latin America the hegemonic development strengthens agribusiness, whose model follows the Green Revolution with its technological packages. An alternative has emerged from the growing convergence of two social movements: agroecology and Solidarity Economy (EcoSol), here called EcoSol-agroecology. Their networks build short suply chains (circuitos cortos), thus bringing producers closer to consumers and strengthening their suport. For this study, research teams developed Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodologies with a community partner who was developing circuitos cortos. During the Covid-19 pandemic, networks had to make rapid adaptations to the hygiene requirements; in the short term they elaborated a recursive practice between action and research.  As the article's new contribution, this network builds collective capacities across various societal proximities. More specifically, common purposes activate and link other proximities (organizational, institutional, cultural and geographical) as solidarity relationships. Such collective capacities help to resist the hegemonic agri-food model.