Politizando el consumo alimentario: estrategias para avanzar en la transición agroecológica/ Politicizing Food Consumption: Strategies for Advancing in Agroecological Transition
Politizando el consumo alimentario: estrategias para avanzar en la transición agroecológica/ Politicizing Food Consumption: Strategies for Advancing in Agroecological Transition
Authors
Manuel González de Molina, Daniel López García, Gloria Guzmán Casado
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Abstract
The starting point of this paper is the unfeasibility situation of the industrialized agriculture model and the dominant agro-food regime. Building a sustainable alternative is urgently needed. In the last decades, a great number of agroecological experiences have emerged which constitute, by their innovative character, the vanguard of an alternative agro-alimentary system. However, these experiences are not enough to produce a change to upper scales of social organization and even for their own survival as such experiences. The main challenge that Agroecology has raised is to upscaling the agroecological experiences. In this paper we propose a change of focus in the agroecological practice itself, betting on the formation of agro-ecological local food systems that, when winning on a scale, impose a favorable institutional framework. This will only be possible through a social mobilization not only focused on agricultural production or distribution, but on food, weaving social alliances with capacity for change. This can be done by politicizing food consumption.
Editor’s summary (commentary by The Gufo, not part of the original work)
This paper examines why agroecology, despite decades of promising local experiences, has struggled to scale up into a real alternative to industrial agro-food systems. The authors argue that the usual focus on production and distribution is insufficient, and propose shifting attention toward food consumption itself as a political act. By building local agroecological food systems and forging broad social alliances around food choices, movements could create the institutional pressure needed to challenge the dominant agro-food regime. The piece is conceptual and strategic rather than empirical, offering a framework for thinking about scaling agroecology through consumer mobilization and politicized everyday practices, rather than relying solely on producer-side innovation.
Why it matters: It reframes food consumption as a political lever for scaling agroecology beyond isolated local experiments into systemic change.
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