New Publication: "Weaving Knowledge from the Community: Practices in Research and Training in Andean Agroecological Systems"

Weaving knowledge from the community

Internships in research and training in Andean agroecological systems

Pablo Vommaro. Karina Bidaseca. [Coordinators]
Narciso Barrera Bassols. María Inés Gazzano. Stalin Herrera. Myriam Paredes. Walter Alberto Pengue. Isaac Mamani. Sergio Romero. Ana Canaza. Adela Quispe. Fany Ramos. Mercedez Saygua. Moory Romero. Fernando Larrea. Edwin Chancusig. Sammia Quisintuña. Fernando Jácome. Sandy Toapanta. María Fernanda Logroño-Rodríguez. Mariuxi del Carmen Andrade-Verdesoto. Lastenia Mariuxi Mullo-Chimbolema. Carlos Eduardo Berrú-Minga. Carlos Ramiro Santos-Calderón. Tony Fernando Flores-Pulgar. Dani Eduardo Vargas Huanca. Elvis M. Álvarez Torres. Ángela María Velásquez Velásquez. Mel Becerra Lavado. Nori Verina Díaz Espinoza. Josué Erquínigo Zorrilla. Paul Hospinal Roman. Alsakuy Agroecológica. [Chapter Authors]
Pablo Vommaro. Karina Bidaseca. [Authors of the Prologue]
Gloria Amézquita. [Presentation]

In the Andes, the land is not only cultivated: it is defended, remembered, and reinterpreted. This book delves into the struggles, challenges, and creative resistance that shape the daily lives of agroecological systems in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. Through a collective lens, the work illuminates the socio-ecological networks that are forged against the current in the territory, revitalizing healthy production and consumption from the very heart of what is ours. Far from understanding "what is ours" as something static or frozen in time, this text approaches it as a living process of ethnogenesis. It is the result of a shared memory nourished by the dynamic dialogue between ancestral knowledge and other forms of understanding. In these pages, the people and their geographies come together to rework the lessons of the past and reorganize themselves in the face of the demands of the present. This book presents a testament of active hope. It reveals how Andean communities transform adversity into concrete responses—some modest, others profoundly enlightened—to pave the way for a more just, sustainable, and desirable present and future. Essential reading for understanding agroecology as an act of memory, dignity, and life in motion.

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