Pensamiento Latinoamericano Agroecologico: the emergence of a critical Latin American agroecology?

Latin America is known for social movement organization and innovation, and for dialog among different types of knowledge ('dialogo de saberes'). This has included dialog between academic knowledges framed by Western science, popular and ancestral 'peoples' knowledges and wisdoms,' and so-calledcritical thoughtfrom global and Latin American revolutionary traditions. From these conditions, we postulate that a specifically Latin American agroecology has emerged from these dynamics. While the global academy recognizes that agroecology is simultaneously a science (in the Western sense), a movement, and a practice, it is the emergent Latin American version that is the most politically charged and popularly organized. This contribution uses a survey of selected Latin American agroecologists to evaluate the extent to which such acritical Latin American agroecologyactually exists, and if so, what its characteristics are.

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Latin America is recognized for its social movement organization and innovation, as well as dialogues among different types of knowledge. A specifically Latin American agroecology has emerged from these dynamics, which is politically charged and popularly organized. A survey of selected Latin American agroecologists is used to evaluate the existence and characteristics of such a critical Latin American agroecology.