The Winner in Argentina? Transgenic Soy
As I prepared for a recent trip to Argentina, friends and colleagues regaled me with tales of the best beef ...
Armoring NAFTA: The Battleground for Mexico’s Future
In March 2005, the leaders of the three NAFTA countries, U.S. president George W. Bush, Mexican president Vicente Fox, and ...
Pachamama Goes Organic: Bolivia’s Quinoa Farmers
The elevator is broken in Bolivia’s Ministry of Campesino and Agricultural Affairs, so together with Arturo Mamani Poma and Salustiano ...
Mate on the Market: Fair Trade and the Gaucho’s ‘Liquid Vegetable’
When Eugenio Kasalaba awoke on March 24, 1976, in Argentina’s northeastern-most province of Misiones, he and his father began the ...
The Global Pesticide Pushers in Latin America
In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, a booming lowland city near cattle ranches and thriving soy fields, I visit Campo Verde, a ...
For an Agriculture that Doesn’t Get Rid of Farmers: An Interview with Miguel Altieri
Among the forms of knowledge—sciences—developed in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans were sophisticated agricultural systems. The Incas, ...
Towards an Andean Rural Development Paradigm?
During these first years of the 21st century, Bolivia finds itself again in the throes of an agrarian crisis affecting ...
The Struggle for Latin America’s Water
Latin America is blessed with an abundance of fresh water. The region contains four of the world’s 25 largest rivers—the ...
