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

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.

scholarly journals Communitarian Feminism in Latin America

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 149-154
Author(s):  
Luis Martínez Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Indigenous Movements ◽  
10Th Anniversary ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Praktyka Teoretyczna journal, we have invited our long-lasting collaborators and comrades to reflect once again on the concept of the common and its possible futures by posing the following questions: a) what is the most important aspect of the current struggles for the common?; b) what are the biggest challenges for the commonist politics of the future?; and c) where in the ongoing struggles do you see a potential for scaling-up and spreading organisation based on the common? In his reply, Luis Martinez Andrade situates his answer in the Latin American context by drawing our attention to the contemporary struggles of communitarian feminists and indigenous movements.

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

Agroecology Scaling Up for Food Sovereignty and Resiliency

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel A. Altieri ◽  
C. I. Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Scaling Up
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