ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the significant range of experiences accumulated to date in political agroecology. In view of the experiences described, it is necessary to provide an unequivocal definition of PP goals that respond to a clearly agroecological strategy, based on principles that prevent them from being coopted and that effectively guide public action along the path of agricultural sustainability. The chapter also focuses on public policy (PP) designs that facilitate the dissemination of agroecological practices. Agroecological collective action is at its most decisive when it is defined by the State and public policy: democratic public institutions must protect agroecological experiences and favor the massification of agroecological production and consumption. The chapter provides the concrete analysis of the PPs favoring Agroecology (PPfA). Although the policies analyzed contain some measures related to the marketing of food and even recommendations or standards to improve food, most PPfA lack a food system approach and center more around the agricultural sector.
