EconPapers: Exploring the organic agriculture practice in Mexico: an opportunity for small-scale farmers to feed themselves

Exploring the organic agriculture practice in Mexico: an opportunity for small-scale farmers to feed themselves.

Paper prepared for presentation at the  113th  European Association of Agricultural Economics (EAAE) Seminar “A resilient European food industry and food chain in a challenging world”, Chania, Crete, Greece, September 3 - 6, 2009.
Authors: Isabel Juárez & Tania Hernández Cervantes

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Breve Exposición de las Contribuciones de Georgescu-Roegen a la Economía Ecológica

Here an article I published in Argumentos, an Academic Journal of the Autonomuos University of Mexico (UAM) in 2008.

Tania. Georgescu Roegen

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This blog attempts to become a horn full of thoughts on the future of food, agriculture and other viands for life, like a cornucopia is full of food and grains. 

I chose the name cornuthopia thinking in the native mesoamerican seed corn, and the uthopia of a world free of hunger  (the ‘h’  in the word utopia is my invention). Food is common to everyone, for people in the countryside and in the cities, so food must be in every place. Land must be used to grow food, not just profits. Food must be in our hands, feeding our stomachs, food must be a human right. 

Cornuthopia intends to harvest alternatives against the paradox of ‘starved and stuffed’. The quest for food sovereignty is a key piece to overcome this paradox: Sovereignty to decide what to grow and how, what to eat and which seeds to use, and against dependence of inputs and food delivered by corporations.  

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