The modern and ancient agroecology: the construction of agroecological knowledge through the dialogue of knowledge

Abstract

The construction of agroecological knowledge is a fundamental process in the current political-
economic and socio-environmental context. Its importance is due, among other factors,
to the challenges that emerge from the socio-environmental degradation and systemic crisis
that plagues regional, national and global political-economic structures at the beginning of the
21st century. Despite the technological advances of the last decades in the various fields of
knowledge, numerous socio-environmental problems persist or even intensify, compromising
the quality of life of the world population. Such problems affect, above all, populations in situations
of greater vulnerability, as well as the relations between the different peoples and that
inhabit the planet, each with its culture and respective ways of being, doing and being in the
world. Therefore, it is necessary to combine collective and individual efforts to establish authentic
dialogues of knowledge that enable the development of agroecology in its fullest sense.