Sembrando Vida: At Ground Level
CECCAM director Ana de Ita takes a community-eye view of the AMLO’s star program for reducing poverty in the country.
Sembrando Vida
Evaluation of the Contradictions in Sembrando Vida
Pulling from a recent evaluation of the Sembrando Vida program, Ramón Vera Herrera highlights some of the contradictions of a program that purports to “raise the income of campesinos and increase the productivity of land.”
Sowing Life? Threats to mountain peasant Life
By Silvia Ribeiro Like in many other progressive governments (yes, like that without quotations, because precisely a central problem is the industrial-capitalist concept of progress) the government of Lopez Obrador in México has focused primarily on favoring industrial development, including industrial agriculture, and infrastructure projects that favor exports, like the Mayan Train and the Trans-isthmic Corredor of the Isthmus de Tehuantepec. The official argument is that these projects will generate employment and economic growth. But this directly and principally benefits the large national and transnational companies that will see their profits increase significantly, in many cases, with workers subsidized by …
“Sowing Life” serves dispossession just like the Mayan Train and the Trans-Isthmus Corridor, research indicates.
“Trifecta designed for the dispossession and subjugation of territory”: CECCAM By the editorial office at La Coperacha The program Sembrando Vida or “Sowing Life,” together with the TransIsthmus Corredor and the Mayan Train, “can be considered a trifecta designed for the plunder and subjugation of territory”, an investigation about the impacts of said programs and megaprojects points out. The 40-page document, prepared by Daniel Sandoval Vázquez and presented by the Center for Studies for Change in the Mexican Countryside (CECCAM), indicates that these projects are closely linked to each other. With regard to the Mayan Train and the Trans-Isthmus Corridor, …