Objective: based on the six pillars of food sovereignty proposed in the Nyéléni Declaration, 2007, the scope and limitations of the Sembrando Vida program in the peasant economy of the San Miguel Talea de Castro municipality, Oaxaca, are analyzed. Methodology: qualitative-ethnographic case study that highlights the perspective of the “actor”. Data ...
The “corporate food regime” in Mexico rested on the dismantling of national agricultural production, but in 2018, with the rise of the progressive government, some neoliberal guidelines were reoriented in the interest of recovering food sovereignty. To this end, a public policy was developed to encourage agroecological grain productivity among smal...
A systemic approach research was carried out at the civil parish of Chugchilán in the Cotopaxi province in order to identify the survival peasant’s strategies in areas located over 3000 meters above the sea level. The results show a wide range of areas: cold heights of mountain ranges, lower flanks of the Quilotoa volcano, upper and lower slopes of...
Resumen El objetivo de este trabajo es describir las condiciones ambientales y productivas de 20 unidades domésticas dedicadas a la cría de cabras en el semidesierto potosino. Partiendo de entrevistas y observación etnográfica, se analizan las relaciones entre familias, ejido, ganado, entorno natural y mercado. Se recalca la importancia de las cabr...
In this paper we question the concept of rationality providing a possible use of it in social agrarian studies and economic anthropology. First, we theoretically clarify the path by relating and distinguishing at the same time two concepts: «modern rationality» and «economic rationality». Afterwards, we present some theoretical-methodological media...
Nowadays, the impact of Covid-19 on world economic activities is so great in the field of food sovereignty. The needs that we are living are evident in Latin American and around the world: on one hand, guarantee life and the integrity of human beings and, on the other hand, the food security in a situation that nobody had foreseen. In this scenario...
Abstract Introduction: this article presents a proposal on how to improve the marketing system of peasant products, derived from research results. Objective: to establish an approximation to an associative marketing system for agricultural producers of small and medium producers. Materials and methods: based on the research carried out with produce...
This article analyzes the situation of the peasants producing coffee of Los Altos de Chiapas, who in different ways have been trapped in the dynamics of the global market. The analysis is focused on the dilemma that these have faced in the last 30 years of neoliberal policies, producing basic foods (corn and beans) for self-consumption or producing...
En este trabajo se analizan las condiciones de reproducción de la economía campesina en el Departamento Iruya, provincia de Salta. El estudio tiene im extenso marco temporal en los siglos xix y xx, y una permanente referencia al contexto regional y nacional. La subordinación rentística a los terratenientes, característica del siglo pasado, es parci...
A relationship between peasant and agroecology is established, as categories of rural sociology, trying to contribute to a construct that unifies them: the peasant-agroecological. This feat requires dialogue with both concepts and observe two nodules that are visualized as main: 1- nature and / or its components and, 2- the relation of peasant-capi...
