Peter Rosset
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 226241 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Rosset |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Rosset |
| FIRMA | ROSSET P |
| AFILIACIONES | Center for the Study of Rural Change in Mexico (CECCAM), Center for the Study of the Americas in Berkeley, CA, Land Research Action Network |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 119 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The politics of the poor
N a’guara !! We peasants do practice agroecology
In the face of the devastating implementation of corporative agri-food systems, processes of re-territorialization driven by agroecology, such as peasant resistance, become particularly relevant. In this article, we examine the history of the organization La Alianza (The Alliance) in Lara, Venezuela from 1975 to 2020, as narrated by its members, and using the methodology of the systematization of experiences. Based on the analytical categories of…
Escalamiento horizontal y profundo de la agroecología
Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo analizar la relación entre la defensa, conservación y recuperación de semillas con el escalamiento de la agroecología. Mediante un diseño de estudio de caso cualitativo se recabó información en dos organizaciones locales en Colombia: Custodios de Semillas de Riosucio (departamento de Caldas) y la Red Agroecológica del Caribe o RECAR (departamentos de Córdoba y Sucre), ambas pertenecientes a la Red de Semillas…
História das ideias de um movimento camponês transnacional
Analisa-se como observador-participante a evolução do pensamento do movimento social camponês transnacional, a Via Campesina, nos últimos 25 anos, sobre os temas da reforma agrária e da defesa da terra e do território. O mundo rural e a questão agrária mudaram e as mudanças externas aos movimentos, juntamente com seus diálogos de saberes e suas trocas de experiências internas, geraram novas posições, estratégias de luta, consensos e dilemas
Agrocombustíveis e crise de alimentos
Neste ensaio, os agrocombustíveis são analisados no contexto da crise mundial de preços dos alimentos e da proposta de "soberania alimentar". Examinam-se as causas da crise, de curto e longo prazo, e embora os agrocombustíveis não sejam atualmente um fator determinante, são claramente contraindicados nesta conjuntura de crise. Argumenta-se que a soberania alimentar, incluindo uma moratória no tocante aos agrocombustíveis, constitui a melhor opção…
Agroecology
"Our global food system is largely based on unsustainable industrial agricultural practices, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, is controlled by a handful of large corporations and produces unhealthy food. Agroecology is a solution to these increasingly urgent problems. After decades of being dismissed by mainstream institutions and defended in obscurity by grassroots movements and farmers, agroecology is suddenly in fashion. The UN F…
Food sovereignty education across the Americas
Re-thinking agrarian reform, land and territory in La Via Campesina
Participatory Democracy in Action
Participatory democracy has been studied as an auxiliary to state processes and as an institutional and cultural part of social movements. Studies of the use of participatory democracy by the Zapatistas of Mexico and the Movimento Sem Terra (Landless Movement-MST) of Brazil show a shared concern with autonomy, in particular avoidance of demobilization through the clientelism and paternalism induced by government programs and political parties. Bo…
Agrofuels, Food Sovereignty, and the Contemporary Food Crisis
In this article, agrofuels are examined in the context of the world food price crisis and the “food sovereignty” proposal for addressing the crisis. Both short- and long-term causes of the crisis are examined, and while agrofuels are presently not a prime causal factor they are clearly contraindicated by the crisis. Food sovereignty, including a moratorium on agrofuels, is argued to offer the best option for managing the crisis
Food Sovereignty in Latin America
(2009). Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Confronting the ‘New’ Crisis. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 16-21
Fixing our Global Food System
The recent world food price crisis highlights what many have thought for a long time: the world's food and agriculture system is broken. Few winners remain in the aftermath of the severe crisis, in which prices for basic food commodities (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans) increased dramatically in 2007 and 2008, only to fall rapidly in the second half of 2008. Although down from their high points, commodity prices are still about double those of the e…
World Hunger
How U.S. foreign aid may hurt rather than help the hungry or poor in third world countries is discussed. Findings show that over-crowded countries have resources necessary for people to free themselves from hunger; per capita food production can increase while at the same time more people go hungry. Myths are presented which prevent us from understanding how we can alleviate world hunger. Some of these are 1) There is simply not enough food; 2) N…
The greening of the “barrios”
Agroecology and the conversion of lárge‐scale conventional systems to sustainable management
This paper describes the agroecological principles necessary to guide the conversion of high‐input conventional systems to a low‐input management based on crop diversification and livestook integration schemes which break the monoculture nature of conventional systems. The new crop‐crop and crop‐animal combinations result in a series of synergisms and complementarities among farming system components which lead to optimal recycling of organic mat…
The Greening of Cuba
Prompted by the 1989 collapse of trade relations with the Soviet bloc, Cuba has embarked upon the first national transformation in history from conventional modern agriculture to large-scale organic farming
Cuba's nationwide conversion to organic agriculture∗
Management of insect pests and weeds
Cuba and the dilemma of modern agriculture
Re-thinking agrarian reform, land and territory in La Via Campesina
The greening of the “barrios”
Food sovereignty education across the Americas
Participatory Democracy in Action
Participatory democracy has been studied as an auxiliary to state processes and as an institutional and cultural part of social movements. Studies of the use of participatory democracy by the Zapatistas of Mexico and the Movimento Sem Terra (Landless Movement-MST) of Brazil show a shared concern with autonomy, in particular avoidance of demobilization through the clientelism and paternalism induced by government programs and political parties. Bo…
Fixing our Global Food System
The recent world food price crisis highlights what many have thought for a long time: the world's food and agriculture system is broken. Few winners remain in the aftermath of the severe crisis, in which prices for basic food commodities (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans) increased dramatically in 2007 and 2008, only to fall rapidly in the second half of 2008. Although down from their high points, commodity prices are still about double those of the e…
Cuba's nationwide conversion to organic agriculture∗
Cuba and the dilemma of modern agriculture
Management of insect pests and weeds
Cuba and the dilemma of modern agriculture
The Greening of Cuba
Prompted by the 1989 collapse of trade relations with the Soviet bloc, Cuba has embarked upon the first national transformation in history from conventional modern agriculture to large-scale organic farming
Cuba's nationwide conversion to organic agriculture∗
Agroecology and the conversion of lárge‐scale conventional systems to sustainable management
This paper describes the agroecological principles necessary to guide the conversion of high‐input conventional systems to a low‐input management based on crop diversification and livestook integration schemes which break the monoculture nature of conventional systems. The new crop‐crop and crop‐animal combinations result in a series of synergisms and complementarities among farming system components which lead to optimal recycling of organic mat…
The greening of the “barrios”
World Hunger
How U.S. foreign aid may hurt rather than help the hungry or poor in third world countries is discussed. Findings show that over-crowded countries have resources necessary for people to free themselves from hunger; per capita food production can increase while at the same time more people go hungry. Myths are presented which prevent us from understanding how we can alleviate world hunger. Some of these are 1) There is simply not enough food; 2) N…
Agrofuels, Food Sovereignty, and the Contemporary Food Crisis
In this article, agrofuels are examined in the context of the world food price crisis and the “food sovereignty” proposal for addressing the crisis. Both short- and long-term causes of the crisis are examined, and while agrofuels are presently not a prime causal factor they are clearly contraindicated by the crisis. Food sovereignty, including a moratorium on agrofuels, is argued to offer the best option for managing the crisis
Food Sovereignty in Latin America
(2009). Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Confronting the ‘New’ Crisis. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 16-21
Fixing our Global Food System
The recent world food price crisis highlights what many have thought for a long time: the world's food and agriculture system is broken. Few winners remain in the aftermath of the severe crisis, in which prices for basic food commodities (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans) increased dramatically in 2007 and 2008, only to fall rapidly in the second half of 2008. Although down from their high points, commodity prices are still about double those of the e…
Participatory Democracy in Action
Participatory democracy has been studied as an auxiliary to state processes and as an institutional and cultural part of social movements. Studies of the use of participatory democracy by the Zapatistas of Mexico and the Movimento Sem Terra (Landless Movement-MST) of Brazil show a shared concern with autonomy, in particular avoidance of demobilization through the clientelism and paternalism induced by government programs and political parties. Bo…
Re-thinking agrarian reform, land and territory in La Via Campesina
Agroecology
"Our global food system is largely based on unsustainable industrial agricultural practices, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, is controlled by a handful of large corporations and produces unhealthy food. Agroecology is a solution to these increasingly urgent problems. After decades of being dismissed by mainstream institutions and defended in obscurity by grassroots movements and farmers, agroecology is suddenly in fashion. The UN F…
Food sovereignty education across the Americas
Agrocombustíveis e crise de alimentos
Neste ensaio, os agrocombustíveis são analisados no contexto da crise mundial de preços dos alimentos e da proposta de "soberania alimentar". Examinam-se as causas da crise, de curto e longo prazo, e embora os agrocombustíveis não sejam atualmente um fator determinante, são claramente contraindicados nesta conjuntura de crise. Argumenta-se que a soberania alimentar, incluindo uma moratória no tocante aos agrocombustíveis, constitui a melhor opção…
História das ideias de um movimento camponês transnacional
Analisa-se como observador-participante a evolução do pensamento do movimento social camponês transnacional, a Via Campesina, nos últimos 25 anos, sobre os temas da reforma agrária e da defesa da terra e do território. O mundo rural e a questão agrária mudaram e as mudanças externas aos movimentos, juntamente com seus diálogos de saberes e suas trocas de experiências internas, geraram novas posições, estratégias de luta, consensos e dilemas
Escalamiento horizontal y profundo de la agroecología
Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo analizar la relación entre la defensa, conservación y recuperación de semillas con el escalamiento de la agroecología. Mediante un diseño de estudio de caso cualitativo se recabó información en dos organizaciones locales en Colombia: Custodios de Semillas de Riosucio (departamento de Caldas) y la Red Agroecológica del Caribe o RECAR (departamentos de Córdoba y Sucre), ambas pertenecientes a la Red de Semillas…
N a’guara !! We peasants do practice agroecology
In the face of the devastating implementation of corporative agri-food systems, processes of re-territorialization driven by agroecology, such as peasant resistance, become particularly relevant. In this article, we examine the history of the organization La Alianza (The Alliance) in Lara, Venezuela from 1975 to 2020, as narrated by its members, and using the methodology of the systematization of experiences. Based on the analytical categories of…
The politics of the poor
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Agriculture (12 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Agroecology (5 obras) · Food security (5 obras) · Archaeology (4 obras)