La agroecología en Bélgica: sus tensiones y su potencial transformador

Food crises and ecologisation have given rise to a Belgian dynamic that spills over and escapes, in places, the conventional tripod of agroecology, i.e., practitioners, social movement, and scientists. The authors do more than trace its history. Rather, they propose a journey along eight strands that interweave to form this complex fabric: GM crop commandos, scientific paradigm shift, UN spokesperson, NGO relays, and La Via Campessina lead to the development of an original non-institutional dynamic called “Agroecology in Action” in the French-speaking part of the country and an institutional initiative that led to a rift in Flanders. This weaving reveals four productive tensions around the political positioning of the discourse on agroecology, access to the land, issues of fair prices and social justice, and epistemic tensions. The latter raise the question of the connections between discourse, knowledge, and intermediation.