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Nicaragua’s agroecological transition: Transformation or reconfiguration of the agri-food regime?

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Title Nicaragua’s agroecological transition: Transformation or reconfiguration of the agri-food regime?
 
Creator Schiller, Katharina J.F.
Godek, Wendy
Klerkx, Laurens
Poortvliet, P. Marijn
 
Subject food systems
agroecology
sustainability
nicaragua
 
Description 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.
 
Date 2020-05-27
2019-10-10T16:37:01Z
2019-10-10T16:37:01Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier 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
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 1-19 p.
 
Publisher Informa UK Limited
 
Source Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems