“El Secreto de Lupita” cuenta la historia de cómo las comunidades organizadas del sureste mexicano resisten ante los megaproyectos del mal gobierno. “He disfrutado mucho este trabajo porque creo firmemente que es importante explorar con dispositivos narrativos diferentes que sean didácticos, creativos y, por qué no, divertidos. “
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Edible Forest workshop in July 2017
Zapatista Food Forests of Today: Recouping Ancient Mayan Knowledge
Beginning in 2015, Mayan students, education promoters, and other Zapatistas began the process of constructing 18 multi-species food forests in several climatic zones of Chiapas, Mexico ranging from a mile-high oak/pine forests to lowlands rain forests.
Food forests represent an ancient, alternative agricultural system which can provide food, medicine, and many other useful products through mimicking the ecology of a young forest. The ancient Mayan civilization was one of many cultures around the world which utilized perennial food forests to meet their basic needs.
For the Zapatistas their efforts to plant food forests today is a recuperation of agricultural practices utilized by their ancestors; it is also a practical response to the bankruptcy of contemporary commercial agriculture and food distribution systems. Within today’s modern Mayan communities, Zapatista educators, students, and activists are uncovering, documenting, and utilizing a rich reservoir of biological knowledge still practiced by their parents and grandparents.
Seeds of Truth – A Response to the New Yorker
A response by Dr. Vandana Shiva to the article ‘Seeds of Doubt’ by Michael Specter in The New Yorker, August 26, 2014. Source: http://vandanashiva.com/?p=105
2013: The year of resistance to GM maize
2013: The year of resistance to GM, written by Silvia Ribeiro of the ETC group (monitoring the impact of emerging technologies and corporate strategies on biodiversity, agriculture and human rights) was published in La Jornada and supports “resistance to GM maize and in defense of the native maize, the life and autonomy of the people […]
