Vínculo agroalimentario entre el campo y la ciudad: hacia un enfoque de metabolismo agroecológico para América Latina. (Spanish)

Food and agriculture link between the countryside and the city: Towards an agroecological metabolism approach for Latin America. (English)

Agriculture and produce have always provided a fundamental link between rural and urban areas. However, global agricultural trade has reduced the reliance of cities on their surrounding areas for food, resulting in both a disruption in the agri-food link and an increasing ecological imbalance. This paper proposes to integrate the metabolic rift theory, rooted in political economy tradition, and agroecology, an approach extensively developed as a science, farming practice and social movement in Latin America. The emerging approach is called agroecological metabolism and helps to better understand the socio-ecological implications of the disruption and reconexion of the agri-food link between geographically proximate rural and urban sites. The paper also discusses the approach's potential application in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Un vínculo fundamental entre áreas rurales y urbanas cercanas ha sido la agricultura y sus productos, pero el comercio agroalimentario mundial lo ha erosionado al grado de que las poblaciones urbanas ya no dependen de las áreas agrícolas circundantes para alimentarse. Ese rompimiento del vínculo genera desequilibrios ecológicos. Este artículo propone una construcción teórica para el estudio de los procesos socioeconómicos y socio-ecológicos que hay detrás del rompimiento y la reconstrucción del vínculo agroalimentario entre el campo y la ciudad en el contexto capitalista. Se integran la teoría de la ruptura metabólica --proveniente de la economía y la ecología política-- y el enfoque de la agroecología, el cual se desarrolló como ciencia, práctica agrícola y movimiento social campesino. Se discute la pertinencia de este enfoque para América Latina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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