ABSTRACT
Agroecology located within neoliberal cognitive and institutional frameworks encounters obstacles and systemic rejection that makes the leap of scale and the agroecological transition impossible. Political Agroecology, by generating cognitive and institutional frameworks, favors a form of reflexive automation of the perceptions, ideas, and behaviors of the actors and agents aimed at achieving a sustainable metabolic regime. Consequently, Political Agroecology must undertake a program of reforms and metamorphic changes of the food regime based on two pillars: a scheme of cognitive frameworks, and a scheme of institutional frameworks. The democratic family institution, in which men and women participate equally, constitutes the optimal model of agroecological institutional design at a basic scale. A household, as an institution, with an internal cooperative configuration, where time, costs, and work are equally shared as well as decision-making rights, is key to preventing family institutions from incurring similar asymmetries to those of conventional commercial firms, which generate a highly entropic model.
