Abstract

VILA SEOANE, Maximiliano  and  MARIN, Anabel. Transitions towards sustainable agriculture: the organic apiculture niche in an Argentinean cooperative. Mundo agrar. [online]. 2017, vol.18, n.37, pp.00-00. ISSN 1515-5994.

This article argues that it is possible to transform innovation pathways in natural-resource-based industries towards more sustainable ones. In particular, it employs the socio-technical transitions framework to understand the structural barriers that the industrial agricultural system puts to COOPSOL, an Argentinean cooperative project of organic apiculture. The article is based on qualitative data that systematize, on the one hand, the pressures for continuity and change in the agricultural system. On the other hand, the data reveal the main perceptions of COOPSOL´s actors about the existing structural limits

Keywords : Natural resources; Sustainable transitions; Industrial agriculture; Organic apiculture; Innovation policies.