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The agroecological transition in Senegal: transnational links and uneven empowerment
Agriculture and Human Values ( IF 4.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 , DOI: 10.1007/s10460-021-10247-5
Sébastien Boillat 1 , Raphaël Belmin 2, 3 , Patrick Bottazzi 1, 4
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Senegal is among the few African countries that counts with an important agroecological movement. This movement is strongly backed up by a network of transnational partnerships and has recently matured into an advocacy coalition that promotes an agroecological transition at national scale. In this article, we investigate the role of transnational links on the empowerment potential of agroecology. Combining the multi-level perspective of socio-technical transitions and Bourdieu’s theory of practices, we conceptualize the agroecological network as a niche shaped by the circulation of different types of capital. Using social network analysis, we investigate the existing flows of resources and knowledge, as well as membership and advocacy links to critically address within-niche empowerment processes. We show that transnational ties play a key role in building the niche protective space, showing a financial dependency of the agroecological niche on NGOs and international cooperation programmes based in Europe and North America. This configuration tends to favor the empowerment of NGOs instead of farmer unions, which only play a peripheral role in the network. However, the multiple innovations focus of agroecology may open up prospects for more gradual but potentially radical change. Based on our findings, we suggest to include more explicitly core-periphery dynamics in transition studies involving North–South relations, including circulation of capital, ideas and norms.



中文翻译:

塞内加尔的生态农业转型:跨国联系和不均衡的赋权

塞内加尔是少数几个开展重要生态农业运动的非洲国家之一。这一运动得到了跨国合作伙伴网络的大力支持,最近已发展成为一个倡导联盟,在全国范围内促进农业生态转型。在本文中,我们调查了跨国联系对农业生态赋权潜力的作用。结合社会技术转型的多层次视角和布迪厄的实践理论,我们将农业生态网络概念化为由不同类型资本循环形成的生态位。使用社交网络分析,我们调查现有的资源和知识流,以及成员和倡导链接,以批判性地解决利基内的授权过程。我们表明,跨国关系在构建生态位保护空间方面发挥着关键作用,表明生态农业生态位对基于欧洲和北美的非政府组织和国际合作项目的财务依赖。这种配置往往有利于非政府组织而非农民工会的赋权,农民工会在网络中仅发挥外围作用。然而,农业生态学的多重创新焦点可能会为更渐进但潜在的激进变革开辟前景。根据我们的研究结果,我们建议在涉及南北关系的转型研究中更明确地包括核心-边缘动态,包括资本、思想和规范的流通。表明生态农业生态位对基于欧洲和北美的非政府组织和国际合作项目的财务依赖。这种配置往往有利于非政府组织而非农民工会的赋权,农民工会在网络中仅发挥外围作用。然而,农业生态学的多重创新焦点可能会为更渐进但潜在的激进变革开辟前景。根据我们的研究结果,我们建议在涉及南北关系的转型研究中更明确地包括核心-边缘动态,包括资本、思想和规范的流通。表明生态农业生态位对基于欧洲和北美的非政府组织和国际合作项目的财务依赖。这种配置往往有利于非政府组织而非农民工会的赋权,农民工会在网络中仅发挥外围作用。然而,农业生态学的多重创新焦点可能会为更渐进但潜在的激进变革开辟前景。根据我们的研究结果,我们建议在涉及南北关系的转型研究中更明确地包括核心-边缘动态,包括资本、思想和规范的流通。

更新日期:2021-07-22
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