This paper analyzes the experience of the Salvadoran cooperative movement in pursuing a political project for the institutionalization of agroecology in the years 2008–2018, under two consecutive FMLN governments in 2009 and 2014. Following El Salvador’s “turn to the left”, Salvadoran agrarian reform cooperatives and civil society allies began to allocate organizational resources toward writing public policy measures to incorporate agroecology under the FMLN government’s agricultural social program, the Family Agriculture Plan (PAF). While the cooperative sector took part in active negotiations with the FMLN party for the institutionalization of favorable policies, the former guerrilla party formulized strategies for gaining a multiclass electorate in order to remain in power. With the intention to better understand the attitude and distinct Salvadoran actors, we utilize an anthropology of public policy framework to indicate how expectations of political party legitimacy failed to shape the institutionalization of agroecology in El Salvador. We suggest that the pursuit of agroecological policies is a balancing act of making use of the State to strengthen on the ground efforts without forging organizational disarticulation following changes in government administrations.

本文分析了萨尔瓦多合作运动在2008年至2018年推行政治项目以实现农业生态制度化的经验，在2009年和2014年连续两次由马解阵线政府领导下。萨尔瓦多“左转”之后，萨尔瓦多土地改革合作社和民间社会盟友开始分配组织资源，以制定公共政策措施，以将农业生态纳入FMLN政府的农业社会计划“家庭农业计划”（PAF）。在合作社与马解阵线党积极谈判以使优惠政策制度化的同时，前游击党制定了争取多类选民以保持政权的战略。为了更好地了解萨尔瓦多人的态度和行为者，我们利用人类学的公共政策框架来说明对政党合法性的期望如何无法塑造萨尔瓦多农业生态的制度化。我们建议，追求农业生态政策是一种平衡行为，即利用国家加强实地努力，而不会因政府行政管理的变化而造成组织上的分歧。