Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. Elhuyarren itzultzaile automatikoaren logoa

Pseudo-ecological enemy of agroecology?

  • When the negative impacts of the climate crisis are so obvious, we are only indirectly concerned. There is a correlation of forces that maintains bottom-up agroecological projects at constant tension and increases the commodification of organic foods through greenwashing.
Zarata mediatikoz beteriko garai nahasiotan, merkatu logiketatik urrun eta irakurleengandik gertu dagoen kazetaritza beharrezkoa dela uste baduzu, ARGIA bultzatzera animatu nahi zaitugu. Geroz eta gehiago gara, jarrai dezagun txikitik eragiten.

Paradoxical scenarios are common that show us scientific evidence: human activity has led us to overcome six of the Earth's nine borders and its transgression would not guarantee the continuity of life so far known. The truth is that there is a correlation of forces so that we are only indirectly influenced by similar news, and instead of questioning the structures of power, we seem to naturally pick up the slap.

As this correlation of forces increases the Greek authorities, projects that reach the lowest level are in full tension with private and public agents who show no commitment to change the logic of the Hegemonic Food System. Besides the existence of spaces of tension and struggle between different models, these private and public agents are responsible for assuming the discourse constructed from Agroecology, although they refer to "climate-smart agriculture", "sustainable intensification" or "pressive agriculture".

We don't have to go back so many years to find similar facts. We should look at the direction taken by the eco-label created to reduce the negative effects of the Industrial Food System. This experience has shown us the ability of large food corporations to modify the regulation of organic farming, creating a scenario of large-scale “organic” monoculture mercantilization, based on the logic of substituting substances that can be used in agriculture. Currently, the sale of organic food is in the hands of General Mills and Danone. In short, agroecology is conceived as a practice of tuning industrial agriculture, without any interest in addressing structural (socio-economic) imbalances.

This correlation of forces that concentrates power in less and less hands is supported by institutions such as governments, the media or the educational system. It is thus difficult to maintain in the long term the agri-ecological projects that seek to transform the Food System from public institutions, in this context we put what happened last year in the Navarro Council of Organic Agriculture (NNPEK). We have realized that, to the extent that it has demonstrated its ability to strengthen cooperation between the Agroecological farmers of Navarra, they have set up a supply and logistics centre (Ekoalde project), or with agroecological criteria in the catering documents of the children's schools of Pamplona (Hemengoa project), as well as opening the door to privatization, they have internally emptied the Council.


You are interested in the channel: Agroekologia
2024-07-12 | Estitxu Eizagirre
The Amillubi project begins to perform repair, planting and training work
In the Iraeta district of Zestoa, the Caserío Amilibia and its grounds are located in the meander of the Urola River. The association for organic farming Biolur is raising funds for the collective purchase of them. By the end of 2025 they have agreed on the last payment, but... [+]

Five months after tractor protests
What do we dream of? Beyond a shift in a globalised food market
Five months have passed since the mobilisation of tractors in Catalonia began on 6 February. Mirene Begiristain and Isabel Álvarez have analyzed these mobilizations with ecofeminism goggles and brought to the front line of this article peasants and claims that have remained out... [+]

2024-05-31 | Estitxu Eizagirre
Amillubi overcomes its first target with 180,000 euros of citizens and agents
The Biolur Association aims at the acquisition of the Amilibia farmhouse of Zestoa and its lands, as well as the implementation of agroecological projects linked to food sovereignty. To this end, inter alia, the Internet collection campaign began in December and set the deadline... [+]

2024-05-28 | Estitxu Eizagirre
The Amillubi Project Online Fundraising Enters Last Week
The Biolur association has opted for the acquisition of the Amilibia farmhouse of Zestoa and its lands, as well as for the implementation of the collective Amillubi project linked to food sovereignty: "The best harvest of this agroecological movement would be for the population... [+]

2024-05-15 | Estitxu Eizagirre
What to study of the Cuban agroecological system (inevitably)?
Amets Ladislao has recently been in Cuba knowing his crop model and food system. With the fall of the Soviet Union (USSR) and the worldwide blockade it is suffering, the island of the Caribbean ran out of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and as a result of these chemicals, a... [+]

Fights and books
Nothing else to realize, it has gone in April, with all its intensities and colors. It has left us hot, temperate and cold days. Rainbow and ice. Torrential rain and heat sheet. As the few newborn lambs walk through the prairie, the knife interrupts the breath of the three sheep... [+]

2024-05-13 | Estitxu Eizagirre
Taupaka festa
Amillubi underway
The Biolur association, which promotes ecological cultivation, has launched the Amillubi project to collectivize the Amilibia farmhouse and its nine hectares of land, located in a strategic location of Gipuzkoa. On 11 May, a festival is held in Amillubi, where citizens have... [+]

2024-05-08 | Estitxu Eizagirre
Amillubi Festival on May 11
Earth starts beating
In the meander of the Urola River, in the Iraeta district of Zestoa, is the Amilibia farmhouse and its fertile lands: 5 hectares of forest and 4 hectares of farmland. The Amillubi project aims to collectivize housing and land. To this end, the recovery campaign is underway and... [+]

2024-05-07 | ARGIA
The Ertzaintza empties Berango Otxantegi Public Land and arrests a friend
On Tuesday the Ertzaintza made a third attempt to evict Otxantegi Herri Lurra by court order. Dozens of people have gone to defend the land and the police have expelled all those who were in resistance on the roof, on the ground and in the tower. Three people are injured in the... [+]

2024-05-06 | Gedar
On Tuesday they want to empty Otxantegi Herri Lurra
For the third time in Berango a new date is set for the emptying of restored lands. At 08:00 hours Otxantegi Herri Lurra members convened a meeting.  

Do you get activated once and for all by politicians Ei, if the academic “popes” tell you?
In bottom-up communications it is not easy to convey the importance of messages and activate political machinery. We often feel that our messages "get in and out of an ear." Therefore, today we bring what some prestigious international researchers say in an international... [+]

Eguneraketa berriak daude