Grassroots relational approaches to agricultural transformation in Latin America
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in: Ecosystems and People, Jahrgang 20, Nr. 1, 2390470, 2024.
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T1 - Grassroots relational approaches to agricultural transformation in Latin America
AU - Allen, Karen E.
AU - Ortiz-Przychodzka, Stefan
AU - Coelho-Junior, Marcondes G.
AU - Herrmann, Thora
AU - Atchley, Maggie
AU - Benra, Felipe
AU - Chavez, Vanessa
AU - Darvin, Eduardo
AU - McCabe, Julia
AU - Nahuelhual, Laura
AU - Rodrigues, Camila Horiye
AU - Muraca, Barbara
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Recent emphasis on market-based mechanisms as the key to solving sustainability challenges has left scholars and activists wringing their hands. This frustration and sense of urgency has been particularly poignant in the issues surrounding food production and land-use change. While creative approaches to promoting sustainable land-uses have abounded, intensive agricultural systems persist as a major cause of biodiversity loss. Mounting evidence indicates that a business-as-usual approach to encouraging sustainable food production rests on erroneous assumptions about human value systems and their link to food and land, often resulting in perverse and/or inadequate outcomes. The relational turn arrives onto this scene, revisiting central questions about how values inform action and how policy can leverage values for more sustainable and equitable solutions. We contribute to this discussion through sharing case studies of grassroots sustainable agricultural movements in Latin America. In each, we explore how relational values are linked to transformative action, and how this intersects with or challenges relevant institutions and political structures. Through this analysis, we illustrate the presence of the relational turn within these movements, while questioning whether existing institutions are prepared to embrace a relational approach to policy and norms. Instead, we suggest that the relational turn calls for a more radical transformation of existing institutions than that embraced by most policy makers, and that this central challenge will persist in any attempt to scale up sustainable ‘local’ movements to affect global change.
AB - Recent emphasis on market-based mechanisms as the key to solving sustainability challenges has left scholars and activists wringing their hands. This frustration and sense of urgency has been particularly poignant in the issues surrounding food production and land-use change. While creative approaches to promoting sustainable land-uses have abounded, intensive agricultural systems persist as a major cause of biodiversity loss. Mounting evidence indicates that a business-as-usual approach to encouraging sustainable food production rests on erroneous assumptions about human value systems and their link to food and land, often resulting in perverse and/or inadequate outcomes. The relational turn arrives onto this scene, revisiting central questions about how values inform action and how policy can leverage values for more sustainable and equitable solutions. We contribute to this discussion through sharing case studies of grassroots sustainable agricultural movements in Latin America. In each, we explore how relational values are linked to transformative action, and how this intersects with or challenges relevant institutions and political structures. Through this analysis, we illustrate the presence of the relational turn within these movements, while questioning whether existing institutions are prepared to embrace a relational approach to policy and norms. Instead, we suggest that the relational turn calls for a more radical transformation of existing institutions than that embraced by most policy makers, and that this central challenge will persist in any attempt to scale up sustainable ‘local’ movements to affect global change.
KW - food sovereignty
KW - Latin America
KW - Relational values
KW - sustainable agriculture
KW - sustainable development
KW - Biology
KW - Ecosystems Research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85205739960&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/26395916.2024.2390470
DO - 10.1080/26395916.2024.2390470
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85205739960
VL - 20
JO - Ecosystems and People
JF - Ecosystems and People
SN - 2639-5908
IS - 1
M1 - 2390470
ER -