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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon
Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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The visible and invisible drivers of biocultural loss in the Amazon
Abstract The Amazon is rapidly approaching an ecological tipping point driven by deforestation, forest degradation and global climate change. These are visible issues that receive increasing political and public attention. However, the accelerating biocultural loss in the Amazon, including the extinction of Indigenous languages, the disruption of ...
Torsten Krause +5 more
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Derecho al desarrollo de las poblaciones rurales [PDF]
La presente investigación versará sobre la problemática del desarrollo rural, específicamente en el norte de nuestro país, analizando las acciones y omisiones del Estado nacional y provincial de Formosa, entre los años 2002 y 2007, en relación con las poblaciones campesinas y el grado de cumplimiento del derecho al desarrollo alcanzado, tomando en ...
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Seguir adelante: A qualitative exploration of Latino farmworkers' work and nonwork resources
Abstract Latino immigrant workers have been an exploited community within many dangerous workforces, but especially within the agricultural industry. They are a crucial population for the labor and economy of the U.S., yet Latino farmworkers report feeling expendable, discriminated against, and exposed to hazardous working conditions.
Faviola Robles Saenz +3 more
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El presente trabajo consiste en un análisis y sistematización de la situación jurídica y política de puesteros, campesinos e indígenas en la Provincia de Mendoza, Argentina, en relación a la defensa de sus territorios.
Luciana Alvarez
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La problemática social y ambiental derivada del nuevo extractivismo minero va en aumento, para enfrentarla se han generado procesos de resistencia y lucha a nivel local y regional que han integrado temas de defensa del patrimonio histórico, planeación ...
Letizia Silva Ontiveros +1 more
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The Spatiality of Popular Politics on the Urban Margins: Insights from Argentina and Chile
Abstract Popular politics—a heterogeneous set of grassroots demands and subjectivities antagonistic to dominant power blocs—finds itself at a crossroads in Latin America. In Argentina and Chile, progressive governments have failed to curtail a resurgent populist‐right despite, as recently as 2019, appearing to be on the brink of a new centre‐left ...
Sam Halvorsen, Nicolás Angelcos
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campesinado organizado aportando a la construcción social de Colombia
El desarrollo histórico del campesinado en Colombia ha sido objeto de un significativo abandono por parte del Estado, evidenciado en la ausencia de compromiso en la garantía de sus derechos y en la falta de reconocimiento frente a su identidad, lo cual ...
Magnolia Rivera Cumbe
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El libro Estudios agrarios criticos: tierras, semillas, soberania alimentaria y dere-chos de las y los campesinos es una compilacion de ensayos preparada por el an-tropologo Marc Edelman para un curso que dicto en el Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales en Ecuador en el 2016.
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Abstract This paper explores selective aspects of the historical processes of organization of the kichwa peasantry in the Andes of Ecuador. Based on the analysis of two representative cases of confrontation between peasants and landowners over access to land in the province of Chimborazo, it discusses the relevance of the concept of “gamonalismo” as ...
Víctor Bretón
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