Conversation: Let feeding not cost lives!
The conditions of agricultural production: labor and environment in contemporary capitalism
July 30 4:00 PM
🗓️ July 30, 2026 | Virtual format
🕒 13:00 PM (Mexico City)
🕒 16:00 PM (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay)
A conversation with Doctors Julieta Paula Mellano and Cecilia Gárgano about the contemporary agrarian world in the face of exploitative capitalism. Mellano researches critical agrarian studies, the history of rural resistance in Latin America, and the impact of megaprojects on communities.
Peasant women analyze how dispossession fuels the defense of the land. Meanwhile, Gárgano studies the consolidation of agribusiness and the "green desert" in Argentina, focusing on the advance of genetically modified soy and pesticides, as well as the commodification of science. The dialogue between these two perspectives seeks to delve deeper into current rural issues.
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Julieta Paula Mellano – PhD in Latin American Studies, UNAM; Master's in Latin American Studies, UNAM. CLACSO-CONACYT Mixed Scholarship – Mexico.
Member of the CLACSO Working Group on Agrarian Histories: Present and Future Challenges for Land and Labor Disputes. Mexico.
Cecilia Gargano – PhD in History UBA, Coordination of the research program entitled «Socio-environmental Conflicts, Knowledge and Policies in the Argentine Extractivist Map» at the Laboratory of Research in Human Sciences (LICH-UNSAM-CONICET) – Argentina.
Moderator:
Maria Veronica Secret, Universidade Federal Fluminense, FAPERJ/CNPQ. Escrithas Laboratory – UNESCO Chair on Global Inequalities | UFF – Brazil.
Organized by
CLACSO Working Group Agrarian stories: present and future challenges for land and labor disputes
Counterparts
National Autonomous University of Mexico
University of San Martín, CONICET
Federal Fluminense University
UNESCO Chair on Global Inequalities – UFF
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