In Latin America, hegemonic development strengthens agribusiness, whose model follows the Green Revolution with its technological packages. An alternative arises from the growing convergence of two social movements: agroecology and Solidarity Economy (EcoSol), here called EcoSol-agroecology. Their networks build short circuits, bringing producers and consumers closer together and strengthening their bases.

For this study, the research teams developed Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodologies with a community partner that was developing solidarity short circuits. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the networks had to make rapid adaptations to hygienic requirements; they developed, in the short term, a recursive practice between action and research. As a contribution of the paper, it was identified that this network is building collective capacities in various forms of outreach. More specifically, common purposes that activate and link other proximities (organizational, institutional, cultural, and geographic) as solidarity relations. Such collective capacities help networks resist the hegemonic agri-food model.