Category: LAC
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Sailing Towards a Sustainable Cartagena
The Planeta Azul Caribe Foundation (FUPAC) is a non-governmental organisation whose main objective is to conduct research to 1) educate and 2) foster a culture of the sea. It was established in 2006 in the city of Cartagena de Indias, building on the work of its founder from 1984 to 2006. Since then, through its…
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Indigenous Peoples Reviving Practices of Milpa Farming that are Resilient in the Face of both Nature and Humanity
The Foundation for the Development of Indigenous Culture ‘In the Footsteps of the Jaguar’ is an organisation established to revive the ancestral knowledge of the Nahuatl culture, by creating projects designed to foster development from within, that is to say, from the knowledge and wisdom of the communities, thereby strengthening and rebuilding the spiritual, social…
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La Fuerza de la Unión
El Caso CIPREVICA-ALFAGUAT DE GUATEMALA y el Valor de las Alianzas en Contextos de Vulnerabilidad Por Rocio Prieto, voluntaria de MDLC América Latina y el Caribe See below for English translation Las alianzas fuertes son esenciales en la construcción de comunidades resilientes, particularmente en contextos donde la sociedad civil es crecientemente amenazada. En el Movimiento…
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Ki Sa Konbit ye? What is “Konbit”?
Article by Ayannah Obas Article in Haitian Creole. See below for Spanish and English versions. Ki Sa Konbit ye? What is “Konbit”? Konbit reprezante yon kolektif kominotè ki entegre nan sosyete ayisyen an e ki fòme ak sitwayen ayisyen yo menm. Nan lang Kreyòl Ayisyen, konbit vle di “travay ansanm” oswa “koperasyon”. Kolektif sa yo…