Empirical evidence increasingly suggests that while the uptake of agroecology brings significant benefits to ecosystems, health, and communities, yet achieving a transition towards agroecology can still be complicated. In this article we contribute to this literature by offering a power-sensitive analysis of the transition towards agroecology. We build on insights from critical institutionalism and introduce a complementary analytical view for examining the institutional arena in which actors' interactions influence individual decisions to adopt agroecological practices. We label this bundle of interactions as ‘intertwined relations’. Our empirical data is drawn from a study of a program in rural villages in Peru, designed to encourage farmers to take up agroecology. Our case study demonstrates that the local dynamics influenced agricultural transition and that their evolution exposed more complex mechanisms of power-play in farmers' interactions. We identify two power-play mechanisms that influenced farmers' decisions to adopt agroecological practices: copying and learning - which entails learning from peer farmers with more resources before adopting an agroecological production model, and the manageability of the risks - which was adopted as a strategy for managing the multiple risks of adopting agroecology, and aligning their economic and social interests with those of the agroecology programs.

越来越多的经验证据表明，尽管农业生态学的采用给生态系统，健康和社区带来了巨大的好处，但是向农业生态学过渡仍然很复杂。在本文中，我们通过对农业生态学的转变进行了对功率敏感的分析，从而为这一文献做出了贡献。我们以批判性制度主义的见解为基础，并介绍了一种补充性的分析观点，以检验制度领域，其中参与者的互动影响着采用农业生态实践的个体决策。我们将这一系列互动标记为“交织的关系”。我们的经验数据来自对秘鲁乡村计划的研究，该计划旨在鼓励农民从事农业生态学。我们的案例研究表明，当地动力影响了农业转型，其演变揭示了农民互动中更复杂的权力发挥机制。我们确定了两种影响农民采取农业生态实践的决策的权力运行机制：复制和学习-要求在采用农业生态生产模式之前向同伴农民学习更多资源，以及风险的可管理性-被用作管理采用农业生态的多种风险并使他们的经济和社会利益与之相适应的战略农业生态计划的那些。