Agroecology: Current reflections and debates towards Good Living
Virtual Seminar 2407
Coordination: María Inés Gazzano (Faculty of Agronomy-University of the Republic, Uruguay) and Karina Bidaseca (University of Buenos Aires and National University of San Martín, Argentina)
Teaching team: María Inés Gazzano (Faculty of Agronomy-University of the Republic, Uruguay) | Georgina Catacora Vargas (Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology) | Myriam Paredes (FLACSO, Ecuador) | Manuel Gonzalez de Molina (Pablo de Olavide University, Spain) | Karina Bidaseca (University of Buenos Aires and National University of San Martín, Argentina)
Home: 03 / 06 / 2024 | Registration: 14/03/2024 al 02/06/2024
Workload: 12 weeks – 90 hours.
In the current context, the economy, the capitalist world, and modernity as a civilizational project integrate multiple structures of power and domination that transcend the economic sphere and encompass multiple dimensions (political, pedagogical, epistemic, economic, ecological, spatial, sexual, gender, among others). In the food sector, large corporations govern the business toward the expansion and accumulation of capital without limits and beyond the capacity of “nature.” Thus, the hegemonic food system becomes disconnected from the reproduction of societies and life, generating an unprecedented ecological and social crisis.
In this context, the agroecological approach emerges to transform power relations—both among people and with nature—at all levels where hegemony operates. Agroecology, oriented toward building sustainable, just, and equitable food systems based on the ecological management of natural resources, the conservation of biocultural diversity, and food sovereignty, weaves together multiple and diverse agroecological experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. These experiences form the foundation upon which to amplify, deepen, synergize, and strengthen these transformations. To this end, it is necessary to engage in dialogue about what is meant by agroecology, its origins, dimensions, and principles, some of its current debates, and the central themes involved in building sustainable food and living systems, such as the intersectionality of struggles and gender, health and food, biocultural diversity and territoriality, buen vivir (living well), ancestral knowledge, and peasant rights.
By placing life and care at the center, agroecology as a movement, science and practice allows for the possibility of a real transformation in the territories to overcome or, at least, confront this paradigm.
CLACSO has a wealth of experience in advancing the positioning of agroecology on the region's political and academic agenda. In particular, since 2018 it has promoted the Regional Scholarship Program for Research and Training in Andean Agroecological Systems and the creation of Communities of Practice, based on the alliance between the McKnight Foundation and CLACSO. Also noteworthy is the work of the Political Agroecology Working Group, among other working groups, in supporting research and training for younger generations of graduate students at Latin American and Caribbean universities, in collaboration with peasant, environmental, and Indigenous social movements at the regional and Global South levels.
This seminar aims to strengthen the collective fabric in the territories, by contributing from advances in agroecology to critical thinking, learning communities, research and training processes in Latin American and Caribbean enclaves, promoting dialogue, from the transformative power of agroecology.
People interested in rural development and the food system from different perspectives such as agronomists, sociologists, biologists, ecologists, nutritionists, economists, doctors, public policy officials, social movements, agricultural producers, farmers, press and media and activists from the environmental and agricultural sector, among others.
GENERAL PURPOSE
Reflecting on the amplification of the agroecological proposal towards good living, through understanding its conceptual and epistemological basis, dimensions, principles and current challenges in light of some central axes involved in the amplification; biocultural diversity and territory, health and food, intersectionality of struggles and gender, ancestral knowledge and peasant rights.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
That the students achieve:
• Recognize the current social and ecological crisis and the characteristics of the hegemonic food system
• Understand the epistemological foundations of agroecology, its origins, dimensions, and principles
• Understand the fundamental debates and the conceptual and methodological tools in the field
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Introduction to agroecology in a context of civilizational crisis: contributions, debates and reflections
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Health and nutrition: An anthropological approach
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Biocultural memory and diversity in the construction of territories
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Good Living and ancestral knowledge
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Gender and agroecology: An intersectional approach
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Peasant rights
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Frequently Asked Questions
The basic requirements for taking a seminar are:
- Availability of at least 4 hours per week to dedicate to the seminar course.
- Internet access.
- Reasonable handling of communication and computer tools.
- Language proficiency in the language in which the course will be taught. The official languages are Spanish and Portuguese.
The seminars last 12 weeks, plus the completion of a final project. A total of 90 hours of dedication will be credited.
A course consists of twelve classes, each accompanied by required reading bibliography, supplementary bibliography, discussion forums and training activities proposed by the teaching team, partial deliveries and a final project.
The course is online and asynchronous. Some instructors may propose synchronous activities. In those cases, the time and date will be agreed upon beforehand between the teaching team and the students to ensure everyone's participation.
To pass the seminar, you must participate in at least 80% of the discussion forums and activities proposed by the teachers, have completed the scheduled partial deliveries, and pass the final work.
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Discount for one payment until 10/05 |
In one payment after 10/05 |
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CM Plenos |
$85 |
$150 |
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CM Associates |
$85 |
$150 |
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No link |
$105 |
$190 |
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