Author Archives: PachaMamita EC

AGROECOLOGY AND LOCAL MARKETS Why consume agroecological products?

Local and agroecological markets in Ecuador

By: Hugo CHAMBILLA [1] Faced with the deterioration of the food agro-industry resulting from the green revolution, with food supply centers filled with conventional products, genetically modified products, and tending to be controlled by a few transnational companies, among other problems, producer and consumer movements are emerging with greater awareness and importance of changing their way of producing, […]

Why are genetically modified crops a threat to farmers, food sovereignty, health and agro-biodiversity?

* On behalf of La Via Campesina, this document was delivered to Pope Francis on April 30, 2014, by Ana María Primavesi, Andrés E. Carrasco, Elena Álvarez-Buylla, Pat Mooney, Paulo Kageyama, Rubens Nodari, Vandana Shiva, and Vanderley Pignati. Introduction: Almost twenty years of genetically modified crops. What have they given us? Contrary to what […]

The Seed Route. From ancestral knowledge to peasant practices.

The Chilean documentary "The Seed Route" contributes to revealing, sharing, and strengthening the cultural heritage linked to the ancient practice of seed exchange, which is carried out today by various agricultural and agroecological groups. The documentary contributes to the debate on the various socio-environmental conflicts that occur in the territories of […]

The countryside and the city unite against GMOs.

NATIONAL SIT-INS REJECT THE ENTRY OF GMOs INTO ECUADOR. Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, five days before leaving office, vetoed the Law on Seeds, Agrobiodiversity, and the Promotion of Sustainable Agriculture, in order to allow the entry of genetically modified seeds and crops for research purposes, […]

Manuel Palacios. Deciphering America's past through writing

The ancestral writing that emerged as a way of recording the impressions of the relationship between man and nature and man and man, requires LISTENING for its decoding, and being repetitive, who else, if not who, gets up in the morning smelling the air that comes from the ocean and the Andes, who by birth or adoption has made this, […]