This book presents oral histories, collective dialogues, and
analyses of rural and indigenous livelihoods facing global
socio-environmental regime change in Latin America (LA). Since the
late twentieth century, rural and indigenous producers in LA,
including agriculturists, coffee-growers, as well as small-scale
farmers/fishers, and others, have had to resist, cope with, or
adapt to a range of neoliberal socio-environmental regimes that
impact their territories and associated resources, including water,
production systems and ultimately their cultural traditions. In
response, rural producers are using local visions and innovation
niches to decide what, when, and how to resist, cope with
uncertainty, and still be successful in using their customary laws
to retain their land rights and livelihoods. This book presents a
range of ethnically diverse case studies from LA, which addresses
socio-environmental, educational, and law regimes' effects using
transdisciplinary research approaches in rural, traditional and
indigenous production systems. Based on both, the results and
insights gained into how producers are resisting and adapting to
these regimes, as well as decades of research carried out in LA
rural territories by the participating authors, the book puts
forward a baseline for devising new public policies that are better
suited to the real challenges of livelihoods, poverty, and
environmental degradation in LA. These recommendations are rooted
in post-development thinking; they promote territorial public
policy with social inclusion and a human's rights approach. The
book draws on over 20 years of research carried out by LA's
academics and their undergraduate and graduate students who have
addressed collaborative work, participatory research, and
transdisciplinary approaches with rural commons and communities in
LA. It features 19 case studies, with contributions from Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, and Mexico.
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