Agroecology in Action Network

The Agroecology in Action Network begins with the intention of connecting the various agroecological and peasant-based projects being developed throughout the country, to help coordinate the sector, propose solutions to common needs, and consolidate these projects. At Ecologists in Action, we have been working for years on agroecology as a valid and high-potential approach to addressing the future ecological and social challenges facing rural areas, generated by the industrial and globalized food system. Furthermore, many agroecology activists and supporters have embarked on projects of this kind, especially peasant-scale models, encountering many difficulties in establishing and sustaining them. The development of care-based projects does not receive adequate support within the current capitalist and patriarchal model. Placing care at the center—the care of the land and the care of ourselves—makes it difficult to establish our projects. Over the years many projects have fallen through or been transformed, but more and more are being born and are resisting, because we want and are committed to another model of socio-economic development that respects the environment, people and the future of the planet.