The agroecological decolonial perspective in face of the hegemonic agrifood system

Abstract

Based on the pernicious logic of capitalist domination in the environmental, social, cultural, political and economic spheres, with regard to food industrialization, this essay seeks to analyze the coloniality processes imposed by the hegemonic agrifood system. In addition, with the support of border thinking, we sought to plead a decolonized reflection on agroecology (in its westernized and interepistemic perspectives), as an alternative-other in relation to the production, distribution, commercialization and consumption of food. The study also engages in the preposition of the need to adopt new sustainable and decolonial patterns of food production and consumption, favoring more inclusive and diverse food-other systems, as well as the practice of socio-environmental (re)existence, implementing strategies to question racialization, exclusion and marginalization practices, capable of re-signifying life in conditions of dignity, in the face of the exploitation of subjects and nature.