Introduction -- Agroextractivism: the desert grows -- The economic r ationality of agroextractivism -- Territorial control and geographical expansion of agribusiness -- The government of the affects -- Agroecolo gy in post-development settings -- Re-inhabiting the skin of the earth through agro-ecology -- The future, behind.

This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyz ing the power relations that exist in contemporary agriculture. The aut hor endeavors herein to clarify some of the strategies that industrial agribusiness, in collusion with the state and multilateral structures, sets in motion in order to functionalize the lives of millions of farme rs, so that their bodies, enunciations, and sensibilities can be repurp osed in accordance with the dynamics of capital accumulation. The argum ent is based on the idea that agro-extractivism cannot be thought of ex clusively as an economic-political and technological system, but as a c omplex interweaving of cultural meanings, aesthetics, and affections, w hich, amalgamated under the abstract name of "development", act as a su pport for the whole system's scaffolding. The book also explores the ot her side of the coin, describing how, and under what conditions, social movements are responding to the calamities generated by this model. Th e central thesis is that many ongoing agroecological processes are prov iding one of the most interesting guidelines at present for visualizing transitions towards post-development, post-extractivism, and the const ruction of multiple worlds beyond the sphere of capital. Political ecol ogy of agriculture joins the calls that question the cultural project o f modernity and the predatory sense imposed by the globalized food empi re, and invites recognition of the importance of agroecology in the con text of the end of the fossil-fuel era and the likely collapse of our i ndustry-based civilization.

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