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2025-06-18

MST protests for environmental justice on World Environment Day

Militants from the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) marked World Environment Day on June 5, with mobilizations across all major regions of the country. The goal was to denounce the environmental crimes committed by the agroindustry and to present Popular Land Reform as a solution to the crises affecting humanity and the environment.

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2024-11-13

Bioinputs International School

The Bioinputs International School (BIS) is an initiative of the International Association for Popular Cooperation BAOBAB, whose objective is to create a space for technical consolidation, political-organisational training and proposals related to bioinputs, between countries and organisations of the Global South.

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2024-09-10

Socialize Care, Change the Economy

The article is a synthesis of the seminar “Socialise Care Work: Feminist Experiences and Struggles”. It emphasises the importance of recognizing and redistributing care work, which is often feminised and undervalued.

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2024-09-03

For a construction that is also Agroecological

Agroecological buildings are built with materials that can be produced locally, with quality, that are accessible both economically and locally and that have a low environmental impact compared to the modern/conventional buildings that capital, together with construction companies and developers, advocates.

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2023-12-12

Agroecology Upholds Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty

The history of agroecology is interwoven with the development of agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals. According to Alteri (1995) [1], agroecology is practised globally using indigenous tribal knowledge close to nature. Some have long associated agroecology with conventional farming practices, however, these positions are imperfect. In my opinion, it is built on indigenous tribal wisdom and integrates all the knowledge that has been collected since the beginning of agriculture, nearly 10,000 years.

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2023-11-07

On Microbes, Biofactories and Sovereignties (Part 2)

This publication corresponds to the second part of an article where the authors reflect on the relationships between microbial life, culture, knowledge development, food and agriculture. You can find the first part of the article here. Continuing with the ideas laid out so far, the authors present concrete experiences in the elaboration and use of bioinputs at different scales and types of production, with a special focus on the local production of bioferments for soil regeneration. Finally, they draw some conclusions about how the management of microorganisms in peasant hands, within the framework of collective processes, is central to achieving food sovereignty and autonomy.

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2023-10-17

The right to seeds: tensions and debates

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the centrality of food and production linked to family, peasant and indigenous agriculture. Access to healthy food and the organisational framework around food supply are long-standing concerns, but in recent years they have taken on a new impulse in the public arena. In this article, Tamara Perelmuter addresses the debate on food sovereignty and links it to the dispute over the sovereignty of seeds in Argentina, a key link in the agri-food chain.

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2023-09-26

“Agrarian Reform Experiences in the World”: Agrarian Reforms in Latin America in the 20th Century

In a second part of reviews of the book “Agrarian Reforms in Latin America in the 20th Century” (coordinated by J.P. Stédile), we present a review of the chapter written by Sergio Gómez E., which presents the Agrarian Reforms carried out in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 20th century . Considering the circumstances and historical factors that affected the continent and each specific country, the author presents an analysis of the meaning of different processes and their effects on the transformation of the structure of land ownership.

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2023-07-11

"Experiences of agrarian reform around the world": the legacy of peasant reform in Mexico

The issue of land tenure and land distribution in the Global South is a central and structural issue in understanding the economic and social inequality that pervades these countries, and is an urgent and necessary debate for any revolutionary movement seeking to reverse this inequality in both rural and urban areas. From the time of colonisation to neoliberal capitalism, land has been concentrated in the hands of agrarian and economic elites, at the cost of the detriment of the peasantry. However, there have also been several experiences of peasant struggles, revolutionary processes, and governments that have sought, with different strategies, to reverse this inequality and democratise access to the land. The concept of "agrarian reform" is part of the programme of peasant movements in the Global South; however, partly because the ruling classes have made it a taboo subject, there is little education on it. With this in mind, the book "Experiences of Agrarian Reform in the world", published by Batalla de Ideas (Battle of Ideas), seeks to systematise the experiences of agrarian reform in different parts of the world, with the aim of providing a comprehensive overview and serving as an input for the training of activists. The book was coordinated by Joao Pedro Stédile, Brazilian economist and founder of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in Brazil.

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2023-07-04

The Problem of Uprooting In Argentina

The forms of rurality have changed in recent decades. The advance of large-scale production, the disappearance of small and medium-sized farms, and the lack of processes that add value to primary production do not encourage life in the countryside.

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2023-06-20

Seeds keep wisdom alive

Our world is facing complex sustainability challenges that are threatening not only our capacity to feed the growing population, but also to nurture it. The Green Revolution and the introduction of sophisticated technological innovations were once considered the best way of fulfilling the food needs of the world population. Unfortunately, this approach doesn’t come close to meeting these needs and every year more people become undernourished, both of food and wisdom.

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2023-06-20

Food sovereignty in times of agribusiness: fertilizer dependence

In the last few weeks, fertilizers have been in the news, as their price increase has accelerated worldwide. The beginning of the war between Ukraine and Russia had a strong impact on the supply of fuels and raw materials for the production of some chemical fertilizers, reducing the supply and aggravating the sharp increase in fertilizer prices, which has already reached 300% in the last months.

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2023-06-20

Food sovereignty

In this short video, we can find simple answers to the most frequently asked questions about food sovereignty: what is it and how is it different from food security, why is it important, how did the term originate and what are the key points?