A partir de la experiencia de un proyecto especializado en los denominados “circuitos cortos de mercado”, el autor de este artículo presenta y desglosa las conflictivas relaciones entre la producción de la agricultura campesina y los mercados urbanos. Es indudable, nos dice el autor,…
Over the last years, geospatial web platforms, social media, and volunteered geographic information (VGI) have opened a window of opportunity for traditional Public Participatory GIS (PPGIS) to usher in a new era. Taking advantage of these technological achievements, this paper presents a new…
This article uses survey data from
Ecuador to examine the effects of women's employment on
the allocation of paid and unpaid labor within the
household. The reader compares a region with high demand for
female labor…
An introductory video to Benefit-Sharing Machanisms. Discover how Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms (BSMs) work to redistribute the costs and benefits of a healthy watershed equitably amongst everyone.
En Ecuador, el Programa Mundial de Alimentos y los gobiernos locales compran los alimentos producidos por mujeres agricultoras con dos propósitos: apoyar la producción local para empoderar a las pequeñas agricultoras y diversificar las dietas, con alimentos sanos y nutritivos. Con esta modalidad…
El movimiento feminista puede aportar mucho a la lucha por la Soberanía Alimentaria, pero el trabajo es todavía incipiente.
The paper presents the development and implementation of a decision support system (DSS) for wetland management in a river basin context under data scarce conditions. It is shown that by combining hydrological, socioeconomic, institutional and biological indicators in a participative approach, a…
In Latin America countries, competition for access to natural resources among different groups has been a major reason for the outburst of violence over the last decades. One of the main aims of the political ecology concerns the understanding of the environmental conditions that can underlies…
In the anthropogenic fire-disturbed ecosystem of the San Francisco Valley in the Andes of southeastern Ecuador, dense stands of an aggressive invasive weed, the southern bracken fern (Pteridium arachnoideum and Pteridium caudatum), dominate the landscape. To secure sustainable land management in…
Many tropical wetlands threatened by land use changes, or modifications in hydrological regime require effective management policies and implementation to protect them. The Abras de Mantequilla wetland, located in the Guayas River Basin in Ecuador, is subject to two major environmental…