Latin America

Adopted in 2024, Colombia's first Public Policy on Agroecology marks a national milestone and a historic achievement for the social movements that have long advanced agroecology. The article explores its key outcomes and remaining challenges. 

Since 2019, the conflict in the peri-urban area of Zavalla (Santa Fe, Argentina) has been transformed into a local agroecological food system. Local governance was key to getting those involved in the problem to work towards a healthy environment.

In the Amazon, scientific agroecological knowledge is combined with the ancestral knowledge of traditional peoples and communities in forest management. This fusion results in several initiatives that stand as resistance to the advance of agribusiness.

Climate governance has been captured by solutions that involve the financialization of nature. The first COP in the Amazon is an opportunity to face the impacts of these projects, betting on the rights and territorial sovereignty of Amazonian populations.

What does it mean to be a feminist activist in El Salvador?  In midst of criminalization of protests, police persecution, discrimination, and lack of freedom of expression, feminist activists in El Salvador take their fight to the streets.

The concept of land liberation through agroecology includes, in turn, the freedom of forests, in opposition to forms of privatization, commodification, and financialization of nature that reduce forests to mere credits.

Brazil's pioneering National Agroecology and Organic Production Policy offers valuable lessons, highlighting both achievements and challenges in advancing agroecology. Despite setbacks, its progress remains essential for systemic transformation.

The G20 has become an essential forum for discussing the biggest global economic challenges. How can civil society contribute to putting crucial issues on the table of the G20 heads of State? 

It is impossible to imagine a just, sustainable, and diverse future that does not include women, and especially rural women, as they are the ones leading the transformation of the agrifood system in Latin America. 

In the early morning of July 19th, 2024, an immense IT failure caused damage around the world, with repercussions that will be felt for months, resulting in, according to some specialists, the greatest cybernetic interruption in history.