Neocapital social, objetivos del Laudato Si’ y acciones colectivas: rutas hacia el desarrollo sostenible

Juan Carlos Fonseca Sánchez

Agroalimentaria Journal - Revista Agroalimentaria, 2026, vol. 32, issue 62

Abstract: This article offers a brief overview of the Anthropocene, a new era in which human beings and their actions can affect both their own existence and that of the planet. Subsequently, from a hermeneutical perspective, it presents a theoretical and referential framework of the common good, economic neo-institutionalism, polycentric governance, social capital, and the bioeconomy as transdisciplinary processes of transformation toward social neo-capital and sustainable development. Furthermore, the article addresses the seven key objectives outlined in Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si', on the care of our common home, which aims to respond to the cry of the earth, the cry of the poor, ecological economics, the adoption of sustainable lifestyles, ecological education, ecological spirituality, resilience and empowerment, as well as a path of community engagement and participatory action at various levels. It is also necessary to address the phenomenological aspect, drawing on the experience of at least six decades in the Rangel municipality of Mérida state (Venezuela) of the irrigation committees, the Páramo Integrated Producers (PROINPA), and the Biotechnology Center for the Formation and Production of Asexual Seeds (CEBISA), which have generated collective actions with significant achievements toward sustainability. Furthermore, the inclusion of bioeconomy strategies has led the municipality from self-organization to a higher stage called self-eco-organization. This leads this research to a general objective: to correlate social neocapital and the seven objectives of Laudato Si’ from a holistic perspective, as an alternative proposal for sustainable development, and to generate final reflections. This represents a viable path, centered on the care of our one and only common home—an approach aimed at transforming the irrational behavior of human beings and preventing their self‑destruction, in which the market is displaced from its role as the core of social organization and a functionally limited State guarantees property rights and polycentric governance of the common good.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Political Economy; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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