All published articles with the tag "agroecology".
Since 2006, Instituto Agroecologico Latinoamericano, IALA, has trained campesinos, small-scale farmers, in agroecology in Latin America through popular education. This institution plays an important role in resisting industrial agriculture all over the region and provides a different perspective on rural development.
A woman from an agrarian indigenous community in Puente Viejo, Guatemala. Photo: Ryan Brown / UN Women, Flickr.
Of: Carolina Yang
In the field of agriculture where production is the major appeal, a lens from the indigenous perspectives provides opportunities to relieve the unprecedented environmental stress imposed by industrial agriculture. Rather than an over-simplified food system, sustainability will be more attainable if native wisdom is applied in celebration of diversity.