Bulletin #5 The social question in Latin America and the Caribbean

CLACSO Working Group on Poverty and Social Policies
Bulletin The Social Question in Latin America and the Caribbean
Year 6 – Number #5 Social issues in the rural world and food sovereignty
July 2026

CONTENTS

Presentation
Flavio Gaitán, María Mercedes Di Virgilio and Máximo Jaramillo

Pending coordination: social, rural and forestry policies in Mexico (2006-2024)
Israel Banegas González and Darío Galindo

Agricultural modernization and rural abandonment: the persistence of the social question in rural Brazil and Latin America
Antonio Márcio Buainain

Human Direction to Adequate Food and Social Participation: foundations for the eradication of food and nutritional security guarantees from the Brazilian case
Silvia Aparecida Zimmermann

Maldevelopment, extractivism and accumulation by dispossession: critical notes on Ortega's Nicaragua
Paula Daniela Fernández

Sustainable development, quality of life, food security: the unfulfilled promises of agribusiness in the Colombian High Plains
Juanita Cuéllar Benavides and Afonso Henrique de Menezes Fernandes

Living conditions in rural areas of Latin America and the Caribbean
Flavio Gaitán