DEGROWTH APPROACH AS AN STRATEGY FOR EMPOWERMENT AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION A case study from agro ecological consumption groups of Granada (Spain)

This paper attempts to shed light on the theoretical approach of Degrowth, based on the need for case studies that illustrate local experiences that respond to the demands of numerous social movements that making visible efforts of social mobilization that express a germinal way of living differently, more in line with sustainability criteria, social equity, and waiving the excess, as agrecological consumer groups. This paper is organized into six parts. Firstly, the study area is described; secondly, the political-ecological debate is discussed around the issue of feeding globalized level; after agroecological consumer groups and some of its peculiarities in the Spanish state and Andalusia are presented to propose the study of these groups as a strategy of empowerment and social transformation as well as its relations with social movements and paradigms of Sovereignty food and Agroecology. Finally, conclusion synthesizes the issues presented. This research is linked to the completion of the doctoral thesis in Economics and Business Administration at the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Granada, one of the case studies carried out in the period of investigation.