Foundations of agroecological transition: ecological rationality and peasantry

Abstract

Unlike those propositions of "alternative agriculture", whose longing are limited to idealize that reproduction of capital can occur without causing devastating effects, environmental or social, from the perspective of agroecology regarded by ALTIERI (2002), GUZMÁN; MOLINA (2005) and GUTERRES (2006) it‟s given that political and ideological positioning is required. In this case, from the critical of structural bases of the production system, peasant‟s everyday experience it's understood as a continuous renewal of the fight, which perhaps is only possible by be also guided by the ecological rationality, causing the intensification of old contradictions, and the production of new ones, through the confront with the hegemony of economic rationality. Finally, agro-ecology is understood in the interaction of farmers with researchers, organizations and social groups, which, in turn, brings the challenge of dialogue within the epistemological plurality.