Nicaragua’s agroecological transition: Transformation or reconfiguration of the agri-food regime?
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Nicaragua’s agroecological transition: Transformation or reconfiguration of the agri-food regime?
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Creator |
Schiller, Katharina J.F.
Godek, Wendy Klerkx, Laurens Poortvliet, P. Marijn |
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food systems
agroecology sustainability nicaragua |
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Agroecology started to amplify agroecology in Nicaragua in the 1980s and was translated into national policy in 2011. Using the Multi-Level Perspective on sustainability transitions (MLP), this paper explores whether the rise of agroecology has fundamentally transformed Nicaragua’s agri-food system. Drawing on the findings of a qualitative study including a range of agroecological actors and organizations, we create a rich innovation history timeline of Nicaragua’s agroecology development at different levels – the agroecological niche (space in which heterogenous actors nurture innovations) and the regime (dominant agri-food system paradigm). MLP analysis is used to explore the extent to which agroecology’s growth has transformed the national agri-food regime. We find that although the term ‘agroecology’ is used widely by government, incentives for transitions to agroecology are only weakly implemented. This stems partly from the co-optation of the agroecological niche’s discourse by regime actors. Currently, it seems the transition process is not a reconfiguration of the agri-food system, but rather that agroecology has been added to the regime without deeper changes.
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2020-05-27
2019-10-10T16:37:01Z 2019-10-10T16:37:01Z |
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Journal Article
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Schiller, Katharina; Godek, Wendy; Klerkx, Laurens & Poortvliet, Marijn (2019). Nicaragua’s agroecological transition: Transformation or reconfiguration of the agri-food regime?. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems , 1-19 p.
2168-3565 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104043 https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2019.1667939 |
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en
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CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
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1-19 p.
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Informa UK Limited
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Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
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