Agroecología e Historia Agraria. Una hibridación necesaria

Résumé

In this article, the author reflects on the food crisis in present day society. The methods recommended by the �Green Revolution� are no longer satisfactory to feed an always increasing population. The explanation concerning the theoretical and technological bases of today�s agriculture and the problems that it will face in the 21st century, stresses the environmental damage caused by the excesses of developed countries and how the poverty of Third World farmers hinders the exploitation of new technologies. A predatory farming model, which is also unstable and artificial, must be substituted for another based on sustainability. Agroecology, agricultural history and environmental history must all play an important role both in this task and in the crisis of history and the traditional epistemological system despite of the conservative neopositivist reaction of recent times. The union of Agroecology and History provides the basis for the construction of a new historiographical discourse on the rural world. A new discourse, that has in these methods and in this new social role given to her to do a preview of the necessary renewal.