Sharing Lessons: Learning, Changing and Envisioning Together

The current discourse on ecological transition remains anchored to entrenched paradigms such as the ideology and the growth of the underpinning anthropo-centrism. These frameworks result in policies that serve as adaptations rather than a true socio-ecological transformation. To achieve genuine change, we must create new perspectives that challenge conventional approaches and foster a comprehensive socio-ecological transition. This need requires a renewed ecological ethic, promoting shared responsibility for our “common home” and establishing learning spaces that bridge formal, non-formal and informal knowledge, enabling exchanges across generations, genders, groups and between living entities. Drawing on critical consumption and social movements’ pedagogical contribution, this work emphasizes the transformative potential of agroecology employed in formal and informal learning contexts. Sustainable consumption and production become actions of ecological citizenship, which aim to cultivate care-based global citizenship, fostering respectful relations across generations, diverse identities, and species. Through such practices, so-cio-ecological pathways are envisioned and actively prefigured, encouraging the development of a collective and sustainable future. This outcome will be brought out by retracing the contemporary experience of Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers Movement (in Portuguese, Movimento Sem Terra).