ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to define Political Agroecology and to develop its epistemological and theoretical basis. The two main objectives of Political Agroecology precisely comprise: the design of institutions that favor the achievement of agrarian sustainability, and the organization of agroecological movements in such a way that agroecologists can be implemented. Political Agroecology is responsible for establishing it and, as a new branch of Agroecology, it is not a political proposal or program to achieve agrarian sustainability. The greater the flow of energy and materials extracted from its own territory or imported from others, the more complex an order a society will create, increasing its metabolic profile. A society’s “thermal death” would be equivalent to the total absence of cooperative behaviors that would make the functioning of the metabolism with the environment impossible, leading to thermal equilibrium. Consequently, asymmetry is applicable to relations between groups or classes within a society and has direct consequences on their environment.
