De la recolección a los agroecosistemas: Soberanía alimentaria y conservación de la biodiversidad

The authors resume the relationship between human societies and territory, and present proposals for sustainable production on natural resource management, based on experiences of the Mesoamerican past. This ancestral knowledge, which fortunately survives in the collective memory, today turns into viable alternatives to the serious environmental deterioration of a capitalist model of extraction of biological and cultural resources that already becomes the “crisis of civilization.” With a systemic analysis of the phenomena and in a progression from the local to the regional scale, a multitude of issues are addressed: food sovereignty, management and restoration of ecosystems for sustainable production, agrobiodiversity in the countryside and in cities, among others. With a variety of experiences, contexts, and levels of analysis, this book seeks to promote practical and efficient ways to use but, at the same time, protect biodiversity. It emphasizes two aspects: building multidisciplinary theoretical proposals, and recognizing and validating the enormous potential that the knowledge of native cultures have in relation to the territory. Researchers and university students collaborate in this book, as well as members of peasant organizations, which are agronomists, agroecologists, historians, communicators, educators, anthropologists, biologists, and ecologists. Their theoretical-analytical views are based on the practice of the relationship of human populations and territory, addressing realities where complex thinking, diversity, and transdiscipline are fundamental as means to understand and address the challenges of this problematic era of humanity.