Agriculture & Rural Issues

Increased demand for seeds during Covid-19 shows the need for stronger, decentralized seed systems in Latin America and the United States.

Increasing community control and ownership of crops like cassava can ensure economic and social welfare.

Joaquín M. Chávez recovers the forgotten history of the rural working-class who helped form El Salvador's leftist radicalism.

Kristina Lyons' new book documents soil and farming in the Colombian Amazon. It is a powerful critique of capitalist agriculture and a rich account of alternative practices.

In Oaxaca's Mixe region, the community of Ayutla has been without potable tap water for three years.

A new documentary provides an opportunity for audiences to reclaim a critical chapter in Peruvian history—the 1969 agrarian reform. 

Coronavirus has changed economic relations in rural Colombia, pushing campesinos to question extractive economies and offering an alternative model of production.

Record fires in Brazil's Amazon this year marked a political protest led by ranchers who, already empowered under Bolsonaro's government, are keen to push the government to fully embrace a dictatorship-era extractive doctrine. 

A visual essay of the historic 1928 Banana Workers strike in Colombia and the massacre that followed, 90 years later

Cuba's new constitution should do more than merely ban discrimination; it should establish more proactive measures to recognize diversity and advance equality. This is the first installment in NACLA's forum on Cuba's constitutional reform.

Rural communities in Guatemala are rising up against unmanageable energy bills, more than two decades after the Central American country privatized its power grid.

Colombian campesinos in Briceño, Antioquia have voluntarily uprooted their coca plants in exchange for government support to grow new crops. But with much aid delayed, the local economy has collapsed, and the presence of a newly formed dissident FARC group threatens more violence.