Soberania y seguridad alimentaria

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 - 3:00pm
CDT
con Educación Colaborativa
Gabriela Villavicencio

Gabriela Villavicenio es profesora de Ecología política y Agroecología en la UNAM, UAQ y ENSQ.

La soberanía alimentaria centra el poder de decisión en los actores de un sistema alimentario dinámico, que tiene como fin, mantener la base de la vida que sustenta nuestra existencia. La Declaración de Nyéléni (2007) define colectivamente a la soberanía alimentaria como “el derecho de los pueblos a alimentos saludables y culturalmente apropiados producidos a través de métodos ecológicamente racionales y sostenibles, y su derecho a definir sus propios sistemas alimentarios y agrícolas.” Caminar hacia la soberanía alimentaria junto con los movimientos sociales urbanos y rurales, requerirá una visión de largo plazo para mejorar la resiliencia socioecológica de los sistemas alimentarios agrícolas rurales y urbanos, que incluyan la protección de la biodiversidad y una visión de cuidado y nutrición permanente de la cubierta del suelo vivo. A diferencia de la seguridad alimentaria, una base agroecológica en el sistema productivo puede reducir la dependencia de insumos externos, promover el consumo de alimentos locales y saludables para la población y generar diversas alternativas de acceso y distribución de alimentos dentro del área metropolitana. También permite mirar la interdependencia de los habitantes urbanos que están socialmente aislados de los agricultores y sus problemas, las políticas que les afectan y buscar maneras de construir y sanar sus propias comunidades.

UPCOMING TOURS

June 15, 2025 to June 25, 2025
Join us in an exciting visit to Cuba--a country committed to building socialism. We will learn about Cuba’s stunning accomplishments such as free health care and education, its collective production in agricultural and urban cooperatives, We will dialogue with leading thinkers about their visions... Read more
March 3, 2025 to March 7, 2025

We will depart from San Miguel early in the morning to Patzcuaro, where we will spend three days. We will visit the most important buildings and churches in Patzcuaro and also visit a number of nearby indigenous villages:

Upcoming Forums & Films

Monday, February 17, 2025 - 1:00pm
CST
Joe Belden
Location:
Join in person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

Manifest destiny was the belief that westward expansion of the US from 13 Atlantic colonies to the Pacific was natural, predetermined, and even divinely ordained. But were Indians, Mexicans, and the buffalo just in the way? This lecture will briefly examine and discuss such events as our expulsion and removal of Indian tribes; the US... Read more

Monday, February 17, 2025 - 4:30pm
CST
Multi-Award-Winning Film Screening
Location:
Location: Hotel Posada de la Aldea, Ancha de San Antonio #15, SMA

ABBA House, founded by Pastor Ignacio Ramirez and located in Celaya, Mexico, is a safe waystation for some of the tens of thousands of migrants who are fleeing violence, crime, climate change, sanctions and corruption in Central America. Now, due to Trump's freezing of USAID's indirect funding, the project is now in crisis and Padre Inacio's... Read more

Monday, March 3, 2025 - 1:00pm
CST
Omar S. Dahi
Location:
Join in person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

Omar S. Dahi is Professor of Economics at Hampshire College and Founding Director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and global affairs. He was born and raised in Syria and currently lives with his wife and two children in Amherst. Dahi has served as a lead expert on the United Nations Economic and Social... Read more

Monday, March 17, 2025 - 1:00pm
CST
Harry Targ
Location:
Join in person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

Behind the turmoil of the Ukraine and Israeli wars, tensions between the United States and China, African contestation over neo-colonial political, economic, and military influence, and US meddling in the politics of Latin America, there are fundamental forces in play that seek to rearrange and change the architectures of global social... Read more