ABSTRACT
Understood as a paradigm shift, agroecology was included in the public policy agenda of the Brazilian State only very recently. It had an interesting trajectory, in the midst of disputes, constituting a governance arrangement and building relevant instruments, but has not been able to meet the conditions for its strengthening, since 2016, with signs that point to the extinction of agroecology as a policy. Given the aforementioned, the objective of the article is to discuss such a trajectory of ascension and extinction, based on theoretical supports and elements of the institutional political environment that suggest fragility as a precedent stage of extinction. For the preparation of the article, a bibliographic review was carried out with authors from different fields of knowledge that allowed to problematize the object, in addition, a survey was carried out with official sources in order to characterize the agroecological policy, its management and governance instruments, and finally, official documents and other recent events that indicate its weakening. In this sense, the article concluded that the short path traveled by the institutional arrangement of agroecology turned out to be a successful experience, but not enough to resist the conservative agendas of recent administrations.
KEYWORDS
Public policy; Sustainable agriculture; Governance; Government programs; Federal government
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