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  • Public policies and food systems in Latin America

    by Jean-François Le Coq, Catia Grisa, Stéphane Guéneau, Paulo Niederle ...
    Series series Update Sciences & technologies
    Solving the problem of hunger and malnutrition, producing and guaranteeing access to healthy food, preserving the environment, valuing local cultures and ensuring citizen participation are some of the challenges that permeate the dynamics of food systems. From different scales and perspectives of analysis, the book addresses the role of Latin American public policies and actions in the ... Read more

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  • Evo's Bolivia

    Continuity and Change

    by Linda C. Farthing, Benjamin H. Kohl ...
    In this compelling and comprehensive look at the rise of Evo Morales and Bolivia’s Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl offer a thoughtful evaluation of the transformations ushered in by the western hemisphere’s first contemporary indigenous president. Accessible to all readers, Evo’s Bolivia not only charts Evo’s rise to power but also offers a history of and context ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations

    Knowledge and Power in Latin America

    Edited by Mercedes Botto ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
    The international trade negotiations that were launched throughout Latin America in the 1990s created significant challenges for developing countries because of their complexity. In order to make informed decisions and successfully legitimize negotiating positions, governments and stakeholders required research, evidence and data from knowledgeable sources such as local technicians and academics ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America

    by Marcela Ríos Tobar, Jutta Marx, Jutta Borner, Mariana Caminotti ...
    Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely collection examines how women’s movements have responded to the dramatic political, economic, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Contesting Trade in Central America

    Market Reform and Resistance

    by Rose J. Spalding ...
    In 2004, the United States, five Central American countries, and the Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signaling the region’s commitment to a neoliberal economic model. For many, however, neoliberalism had lost its luster as the new century dawned, and resistance movements began to gather force. Contesting Trade in Central America is the first book-length ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Environmental Governance in Latin America

    Edited by Fabio De Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, Michiel Baud ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC-BY license.The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists – have turned environmental governance in Latin America into a highly contested arena. In such a resource-rich region, unequal power relations, conflicting priorities, and trade-offs among multiple goals ... Read more

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  • Voice and Vote

    Decentralization and Participation in Post-Fujimori Peru

    by Stephanie McNulty ...
    In the months following disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori's flight to Japan, Peru had a political crisis on its hands. The newly elected government that came together in mid-2001 faced a skeptical and suspicious public, with no magic bullet for achieving legitimacy. Many argued that the future of democracy was at stake, and that the government's ability to decentralize and incorporate new ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Migration in South America

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Gioconda Herrera, Carmen Gómez ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access regional reader examines emerging issues around new migration patterns in South America and their relationship with changing migration policies over the last twenty years. The first part of the book looks at conceptual discussions on mixed and survival migration, the link between migration and extractivism, and the specific character of transit migration. A second part examines ... Read more

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  • Oil in the Soil

    The Politics of Paying to Preserve the Amazon

    by Pamela L. Martin ...
    Paradise may have been found in the Western Amazon, but it is on the brink of destruction. Oil in the Soil analyzes the campaign to save the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) block of Yasuní National Park in Ecuador's Amazon and the global networks that have resulted in one of the world's most innovative plans to save the Amazon and other biodiverse places on our planet. Pamela L. Martin examines ... Read more

    $96.39 USD

  • Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean 2020: Food Security and Nutrition for Lagging Territories

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that are related to food security and nutrition will not be achieved as long as, in some territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, populations continue to live with malnutrition rates. Economic opportunities in these areas are often limited, public services are scant, and exposure to severe climate events is high. The public policies ... Read more

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  • Labor Relations in Globalized Food

    Edited by Terry Marsden, Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti, Alessandro Bonanno ...
    Series Book 20 - Research in Rural Sociology and Development
    In recent years labor relations have altered significantly and new and more serious forms of labor marginalization and control have emerged. This book looks at labor in agriculture and food in a global era by studying salient characteristics of the conditions and use of labor in global agri-food. Written by experienced and also emerging scholars, the chapters present a wealth of empirical data and ... Read more

    $159.99 USD

  • Care Work and Class

    Domestic Workers’ Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America

    by Merike Blofield ...
    Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-class families and enabled well-to-do women to enter professional labor markets without having to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD