ABSTRACT
Populism has a terrible reputation in the political and academic world. Populism is a political language capable of articulating diverse interests under a united mobilization against the system, unveiling the basic contradiction between the “people” and a privileged minority. The feminist movement, and especially the ecofeminist movement, is an objective ally of the agroecological movement, as it sheds light on the impacts that agroecosystem degradation produces on women. All peasant producers need intellectual means for appropriating nature. In the context of a peasant economy, such knowledge of nature became a decisive component in the design and implementation of autonomous reproduction strategies. From an institutional perspective, the peasant community has ample competencies upon all factors of agrarian production and of the whole of the appropriation process. The origin of the loss of peasant traits lies in private property and the market penetrating into peasant economies, causing a sudden leap into commodification and subordination to the capitalist market.
