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Este artículo examina las relaciones establecidas entre el campesinado, la política de tierras y de conservación de bosques en Costa Rica entre las décadas de 1960 y 1980. Su objetivo es estudiar las contradicciones sociales y ecológicas de dichas políticas en el contexto del auge de la Reforma Agraria y la deforestación en este país.
Wilson Picado, Elisa Botella Rodríguez
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Capacitación de campesino a campesino
The work for the promotion of development brings together in an unavoidable encounter human beings who come from different strata of Peruvian society, to involve them in the common task of seeking solutions to the material and spiritual misery of our Peru.
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The ‘Campesino a Campesino’ Agroecology Movement in Cuba
Agroecology has played a key role in helping Cuba survive the acute crisis caused by the collapse of the socialist bloc in Europe in 1989-90 and the subsequent chronic crisis due the U.S. trade embargo, which have prevented economic normalization on the island ever since socialist trade relations were lost.
Peter Rosset, Valentín Val
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The ‘Campesino a Campesino’ Agroecology Movement in Cuba
Agroecology has played a key role in helping Cuba survive the acute crisis caused by the collapse of the socialist bloc in Europe in 1989-90 and the subsequent chronic crisis due the U.S. trade embargo, which have prevented economic normalization on the island ever since socialist trade relations were lost.
Val, Valentín, Rosset, Peter
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The article analyzes the relations between the peasant and public policies regarding land tenure and forest conservation in Costa Rica between the 1960s and 1980s. It aims to study the social and ecological contradictions of such policies within the broader context that encompasses agrarian reform on one side and deforestation on the other.
Picado, Wilson +1 more
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ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard +2 more
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ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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ABSTRACT Household food expenditure continues to be a key factor in ensuring the realization of the Human Right to Adequate Food. Particularly in Brazil, access to food can be limited by economic constraints in vulnerable families, especially among farming families, who have been more vulnerable to food insecurity in recent years in the country.
Lucas de Almeida Moura +3 more
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