ABSTRACT
In recent years, concerns related to sustainability in agriculture and food production in Brazil were incorporated into the public agenda, including several prominent policies addressing hunger and promoting family farming. The change in agriculture and food is not the outcome of highly unidirectional and predictable development processes. The expansion of networks can be described as a wide spectrum of contingent associations and interactions, creating multiplicities, which probably affect flows of change. Based on long-term research and personal involvement, this chapter explores how critical and practical action against dominant modes of agriculture and food consumption fostered creative associations between practices, agencies, and materialities to give birth to agroecological networks in Brazil. It examines how emergent agencies and potential associations make room for agroecology networks, which processes contribute to enlarging the networks under particular contingencies, and whether situated practices contribute to political activism. The chapter explores the trajectory of two ongoing experiences in Brazil, situated in Serra Gaucha and Zona da Mata.
