Two characteristic phenomena associated with modern capitalism are the accelerated-growing process of concentration and homogenization of the world's once diverse agrarian production systems, and an alarming socio-environmental crisis that knows no nations nor borders. However, experiences of local-communitarian resistances to these macro-processes have not been few. In the last decades of the past century, one of said experiences has emerged, and recently getting wide notice, in the heart of Latin America diverse agricultural and biosocial landscape, under the form of a paradigmatic shift in the way certain groups of people (farmers, consumers, policy makers, technicians, scientists, to name a few) perceive and produce its relations to agriculture, nature and society. Sometimes defined as a social movement, other times as a method of agricultural practices in communion with specific natural processes, or even a science all together, “agroecology” constitutes itself as an alternative proposal to the current hegemonic agricultural production model, that was gestated by the Green Revolution. Based on our ethnographic fieldwork conducted on small groups of agroecological “colonos” (farmers) from the province of Misiones, Argentina, we will seek to illuminate the intrinsic communitarian and utopic aspects of the agroecology project. Specifically, our objective is to analyze a specific ethnographic case, where a community, which ties are rooted by specific socio-technical processes and visions of alternative and better futures, have materially manifested under the form of two institutional enterprises: the creation of an environmental non-governmental organization and a network of specialized agroecological farmers certified by a higher education institution.
