Agroecology is both the science that allows us to design agroecosystems that are more sustainable and socially just, largely based on small-scale producers of food, and also represents a global movement to transform to current globalized food system that is dominated by a handful of corporations.
The advantages of agroecological peasant and family farm production compared to industrial agriculture and livestock rearing are widely recognized in the scientific community, and these advantages are more important than ever in light of the Covid pandemic. Rural social movements hold the key to developing territorial processes to massify small farm agroecology, though they must swim against the currents of pro-corporate policies and other manifestations of corporate power.
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Dr. Peter Rosset is a professor and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in Chiapas, Mexico. He is also BPV-FUNCAP professor in the Graduate Program of Sociology at the Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE), and collaborating professor the Program on Territorial Development (TerritoriAL) at the Universidade Paulista, both in Brazil.
He has also been a visiting professor in the Social Research Institute (CUSRI) of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. He recently retired from 15 years as technical staff in the secretariat of the global peasant movement, La Via Campesina. He is the author of many scientific papers and books, most recently Agroecology: Science and Politics.
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