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title: "Bringing agroecology to scale: key drivers and emblematic cases"
description: "Agroecology as a transformative movement has gained momentum in many countries worldwide. In several cases, the implementation of agroecological practices has grown beyond isolated, local experiences to be employed by ever-greater numbers of families and communities over ever-larger territories and…"
url: "https://predon.be/docs/bringing-agroecology-to-scale-key-drivers-and-emblematic-cases/"
updated: "2026-02-22"
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# Bringing agroecology to scale: key drivers and emblematic cases

Agroecology as a transformative movement has gained momentum
 in many countries worldwide. In several cases, the implementation
 of agroecological practices has grown beyond isolated, local
 experiences to be employed by ever-greater numbers of families
 and communities over ever-larger territories and to engage more
 people in the processing, distribution, and consumption of
 agroecologically produced food. To understand the nonlinear,
 multidimensional processes that have enabled and impelled the
 bringing to scale of agroecology, we review and analyze emblematic
 cases that include the farmer-to-farmermovement in Central
 America; the national peasant agroecologymovement in Cuba; the
 organic coffee boom in Chiapas, Mexico; the spread of Zero Budget
 Natural Farming in Karnataka, India; and the agroecological
 farmer–consumer marketing network “Rede Ecovida,” in Brazil. On
 the basis of our analysis, we identify eight key drivers of the process
 of taking agroecology to scale: (1) recognition of a crisis that
 motivates the search for alternatives, (2) social organization, (3)
 constructivist learning processes, (4) effective agroecological
 practices, (5) mobilizing discourses, (6) external allies, (7) favorable
 markets, and (8) favorable policies. This initial analysis shows that
 organization and social fabric are the growth media on which
 agroecology advances, with the help of the other drivers. A more
 detailed understanding is needed on how these multiple dimensions
 interact with, reinforce, and generate positive feedback with
 each other to make agroecology’s territorial expansion possible.

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