PODCAST 30: Latin America is the front line of a global war on nature
Tag: Agriculture
Food for thought
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Traditional indigenous knowledge is key to beating food insecurity. Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways: Indigenous Traditions as a Recipe for Living Well, Mariaelena Huambachano, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, Peru, South America
Culinary colonialism
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The corporate takeover of Mexican food is identity theft on a vast scale. Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines, edited by Verónica Pérez Rodríguez, Shanti Morell-Hart, and Stacie M. King, 2024, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Growth and autonomy
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Urban exiles flocking to Brazil’s hinterland are seeking freedom. Return from the World: Economic Growth and Reverse Migration in Brazil, Gregory Duff Morton
Categories: Brazil, South America
Colombia’s bitter sweet harvest
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Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia, Timothy W. Lorek, 2023, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Colombia, North America, South America, United States