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The market is the Neighborhood
The production of a small family dairy, the result of a settling process with obstacles, has become the solid foundation of a family existence. After a phase of experimentation in the milk processing and the commercialization of the derivatives, the sale of yogurt in the immediate environment has been prioritized. When the production leaves the […]
ABC´s: Classroom forest coexistence
Bosque Escuela Pambiliño (Pambiliño Forest School), project of life of a family in the tropical forest of the Ecuadorian Chocó. A symbiosis between restoration and sustainability of the forest and an alternative education to development.
Alliance of prosumers Motivational experienc
Conscious consumption of healthy food, produced by farmers at an ecological small scale and marketed by a solidarity of consumers and producers leads to an alliance of short distances between country and city, producers and consumers.
The market is the Neighborhood
The production of a small family dairy, the result of a settling process with obstacles, has become the solid foundation of a family existence. After a phase of experimentation in the milk processing and the commercialization of the derivatives, the sale of yogurt in the immediate environment has been prioritized. When the production leaves the […]
Chocolate and something else
A farm in the tropical forest of the Ecuadorian Chocó, growing organic cacao and producing delicious chocolate bars, dedicating ninety percent of the land to the conservation and recovery of the ecosystem. Social justice and ecological sustainability, circular and collaborative economy, breaks of paradigms that open new paths.
Weaving with dignity
Starting from a collective initiative for the cultural rescue of a productive area, the goal is to build a development from the local-productive identity by betting on th commercialization of quality craftsmanship products and, above all, on local identity.
Participatory Guarantee System ECO Feria
ECO Feria’s Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) is a participatory accreditation mechanism reachable for small producers, facilitating the sale of organic food products, benefiting family agriculture and other stakeholders in the social solidarity economy and the consumer as well.
Where energy flows
AulaViva Tropical is the name of the farm of brothers Jose and Juan Pablo Zarate, located in the plains municipality of Lejanias in the department of Meta – Colombia. The farm is a fairly complete agro-energy model, result of the conviction of the people. Water, sun, biomass and micro-organisms are used, in a friendly and […]
From trash to sharing economy: An experience where no one loses
What started as an initiative with a business logic against the eruption of a cholera epidemy and illegal dumping, sitesin the east of Lima/ Peru, has become a collective enterprise where sharing economy is practiced,generating benefits in the environmental, social and economic aspect. A story where no one loses.
On the way to solidarity economy
The Guanentá, Comunera and Vélez provinces in the south of the department of Santander – Colombia, are home of a process where the socio-organizational structure of their habitants and solidarity economy in the form of cooperatives have tried to mark the contemporary history of this region, breaking paradigms, for example, through a financial economic system, […]
What development are we talking abaut?
The experience of the Tacana II indigenous territory and its organization, in the heart of the Bolivian Amazon, is a faithful testimony of possibilities to defend its vision of development in the face of the threats of extractivism. It is a resistance with dialogue and proposal, asserting their rights, negotiating the coexistence with different logics […]
Defense of water and life – resistance as an alternative
The defense of the Páramo de Santurbán (tropical moorland of Santurbán) is an emblematic case of resistance to the delivery of the territories to large mining companies by the Colombian government. The environmental authorities have generated and modified norms to give a legitimacy to the extractivist and short-term measures that they adopt. The civic platform […]