Common Ground: Connections and Tensions Between Food Sovereignty Movements in Australia and Latin America

2019 ◽  
pp. 81-109
Author(s):  
Alana Mann
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Food Sovereignty

scholarly journals Food sovereignty: an alternative paradigm for poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation in Latin America

F1000Research ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Jahi Chappell ◽  
Hannah Wittman ◽  
Christopher M Bacon ◽  
Bruce G Ferguson ◽  
Luis García Barrios ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
The Face

Strong feedback between global biodiversity loss and persistent, extreme rural poverty are major challenges in the face of concurrent food, energy, and environmental crises. This paper examines the role of industrial agricultural intensification and market integration as exogenous socio-ecological drivers of biodiversity loss and poverty traps in Latin America. We then analyze the potential of a food sovereignty framework, based on protecting the viability of a diverse agroecological matrix while supporting rural livelihoods and global food production. We review several successful examples of this approach, including ecological land reform in Brazil, agroforestry,milpa, and the uses of wild varieties in smallholder systems in Mexico and Central America. We highlight emergent research directions that will be necessary to assess the potential of the food sovereignty model to promote both biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction.

Does indigenous and campesino traditional agriculture have anything to contribute to food sovereignty in Latin America? Evidence from Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 326-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvis Parraguez-Vergara ◽  
Beatriz Contreras ◽  
Neidy Clavijo ◽  
Vivian Villegas ◽  
Nelly Paucar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Traditional Agriculture

Scaling up Agroecological Approaches for Food Sovereignty in Latin America

Development ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 472-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel A Altieri ◽  
Clara I Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Scaling Up

The Role of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD): Confronting the Problem of Illegal Drugs in the Americas

2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-165
Author(s):  
Betty Horwitz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The United States ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Common Drug ◽  
American States

AbstractThe illegal drug trade has become a serious threat for the Americas. Is a multilateral approach to combat it possible? This article proposes that the United States and Latin America are finding ways to use multilateral organisms to confront this threat and examines as an example the role of CICAD in setting a cooperative agenda to develop an antidrug regime. CICAD has established common ground for long-term cooperation in certain areas. But common drug strategies in the Americas require the support of the United States and the cooperation of Latin American states, both of which are still works in progress. Therefore the future of the CICAD-inspired antidrug regime will depend on whether the United States and Latin America will cooperate to define the illegal drug threat in the same way and bestow on CICAD the authority necessary to address it.

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