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Culture and Identity

Globalization is threatening our cultural identities. In this category we explore how to strengthen culture and territory as the basis for an authentic and sustainable existence.

Art 71. Rurality: a choice, not a punishment

Culture and IdentityEconomy and MarketProduction and Food

Through agroecology, community savings, food sovereignty, and women taking the lead, it is demonstrated that desirable future prospects and dignified ...

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Art 70. Knowledge that builds feelings and territories

City and HousingCulture and IdentityResistance and Alternatives

In the northern mountains of Puebla, communities defend their territory as a living entity that nurtures life, resisting megaprojects involving ...

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Art 69. Home and territory – regaining autonomy

City and HousingCulture and IdentityResistance and Alternatives

The Nahua community of Ostula, Michoacán, overcame violence and criminal land grabs by reclaiming their lands in 2009 thanks to ...

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Art 68. The El Zapotillo dam and the resistance that perforates power

Culture and IdentityEnvironment and Development

Temacapulín, Acasico, and Palmarejo stopped flooding from El Zapotillo through organization, support, and legal victories. After two decades, they avoided ...

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Art 67. Connected history Connected history

Culture and Identity

The civil war in El Salvador left a deep mark of victims and trauma. Today, memory and commemoration - driven ...

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Art 66. Disputed territory, community on its feet

Culture and IdentityEnvironment and Development

The community of Santa Marta, repopulated in 1987 at the end of the Salvadoran civil war, now faces new threats: ...

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Art 65. Go over to the other side

Culture and IdentityEnvironment and DevelopmentResistance and Alternatives

Grupo Avanti is a start-up, in fumigating, that has recovered from a resounding failure that nearly led to its closure. ...

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Art 64. The struggle for Ñembi Guasu

Culture and IdentityEnvironment and DevelopmentResistance and Alternatives

This story revolves around the struggle of Bolivia's indigenous peoples for the recognition and self-governance of their territories, particularly the ...

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Art 63. The Chigüazá: subject territory

City and HousingCulture and IdentityResistance and Alternatives

The middle basin of the La Chigüaza stream in Bogotá is the scene of a community-based process that strengthens territorial ...

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