Abstract
The chapter examines about the contributions that peasant agriculture and agroecology have made to food security and food sustainability in Latin America and draws from experiences lessons for long term sustainability and environmental education that is centered on food. The second section examines encounters between science and local peasant knowledge, and the emergence in Latin America of the science of agroecology. The third section discusses some of the lessons drawn from peasant agriculture and agroecology that can be integrated into the sustainability education required to develop workable adaptation strategies to the intertwined effects of global warming and globalization. The systematic study of traditional peasant agriculture that led, some thirty years ago, to the emergence of agroecology. The learning processes of the peasant, the polycultures of their minds, systematized and amplified by agroecology, provide many lessons of great significance for scholars interested in sustainability education, and the elements for an understanding of a new ecology of knowledge.
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