Transition to agroecology with dairy farmers in Uruguay: analysis of a process of co-construction of knowledge.

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https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re57.345

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Transitions to agroecology, food production, niche technology, knowledge co-construction

Abstract

The chapter analyzes a process of co-innovation for the transition to agroecology in dairy farming as a process of co-construction of knowledge. Six dairy farming families, a civil society organization dedicated to the promotion of agroecology, and researchers from the National Institute of Agricultural Research and the University of the Republic participated in the process, which was financed by the National Development Agency of Uruguay. The anthropological team that writes this paper participated in the technical team of the co-innovation project and in turn developed an ethnographic approach to the process, seeking to understand the device generated as a niche technology with the potential to transform the prevailing socio-technical regime in Uruguayan agricultural production, degradent of the environment, life and human relations. The chapter presents the case and its actors, analyzes the functioning of the technology with special attention to the dynamics of co-production of knowledge, reviews some of the effects of the transition process to agroecology, and closes with final reflections.

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Published

2023-12-30

How to Cite

Taks, J., Alzugaray, S., Evia, V., Sosa, F., & Clavijo, I. (2023). Transition to agroecology with dairy farmers in Uruguay: analysis of a process of co-construction of knowledge. Redes. Journal of Social Studies of Science and Technology, 29(57). https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re57.345

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