Carol Hernández Rodríguez’s research while affiliated with University of Portland and other places

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TRANSFORMANDO LOS ESTUDIOS AGRARIOS CRÍTICOS: SOLIDARIDAD, ACTIVISMO ACADÉMICO Y AGENDAS EMANCIPATORIAS EN Y DESDE EL SUR GLOBAL
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December 2023

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Diana María Valencia-Duarte

Esta contribución examina los retos y oportunidades que enfrentan las y los académicos en estudios agrarios críticos basados en o provenientes del Sur Global. Nuestro argumento es que, a pesar de las limitaciones históricas y estructurales, en la coyuntura actual convergen diversas crisis estructurales y un renovado interés en la economía política agraria que ofrecen una oportunidad para impulsar una agenda de investigación diversa e incluyente. En ella tienen lugar las perspectivas críticas originadas desde el Sur Global, que suelen estar ausentes en la academia convencional dominada por el Norte Global. Proponemos hacer esto por medio de la creación y fortalecimiento de vínculos de solidaridad que contrarresten las injusticias dentro de la academia y otros espacios de generación de conocimiento y diseminación. Para desarrollar el argumento, primero, reflexionamos acerca de la multiplicidad de crisis en las áreas rurales, el carácter cambiante de las luchas sociales y las interrelaciones entre las crisis ambientales y la reemergencia de los estudios agrarios críticos, las cuales están transformando la cuestión agraria. Posteriormente, discutimos las implicaciones y condiciones de la agenda política impulsada por nuestro movimiento de activismo académico en estudios agrarios desde el Sur Global. Desde nuestra posición como integrantes de CASAS, proponemos tres mecanismos para fortalecer la solidaridad a través de redes de académicos/as-activistas: accesibilidad al conocimiento, organización cooperativa y coproducción del conocimiento.

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Soberanía de semillas campesinas y justicia climática en un mundo biotecnológico

December 2023

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Debates en Sociología

La agricultura campesina y sus sistemas de agrobiodiversidad se encuentran en una coyuntura en la cual dos procesos globales imponen significantes retos para su sustentabilidad: cambio climático y la expansión de la agricultura industrial biotecnológica sustentada en un régimen de derechos de propiedad intelectual sobre los recursos fitogenéticos. En este artículo exploro algunos de los riesgos potenciales que imponen estos procesos globales en la agricultura campesina, particularmente en sus sistemas de semillas. Analizamos como, en respuesta a estos, las comunidades campesinas se han movilizado crecientemente en torno a dos agendas políticas que han terminado por converger, soberanía de semillas y justicia climática. Además de los logros políticos de estas movilizaciones para confrontar algunos de los grandes desarrollos biotecnológicos y corporativos en el contexto de cambio climático, las acciones campesinas comunitarias implementadas para proteger y defender sus sistemas de semillas contribuyen directamente a reafirmar el carácter de las semillas como parte de los bienes comunes de los pueblos campesinos y a preservar la diversidad de la agrobiodiversidad en sus manos, la cual puede ser vital para la adaptación de sus sistemas alimentarios frente a los escenarios climáticos futuros.


Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South

April 2023

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The Journal of Peasant Studies

This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We argue that despite the historical and structural limitations, the critical juncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest in agrarian political economies offers an opportunity for fostering a diverse research agenda that opens space for critical perspectives about, from and by the Global South, which is mostly absent in mainstream scholarship dominated by the Global North. We also propose doing so by enhancing solidarity to transform injustices within academia and other spaces of knowledge production and dissemination. To develop the argument, first, we reflect on the multiplicity of crises in rural areas and the changing character of social struggles, as well as the interlinkages between environmental crises and the re-emergence of critical agrarian studies that are reshaping the agrarian question. Then, we discuss the implications and conditions of the political agenda carried out by a scholar-activist movement working on agrarian studies from the Global South. Drawing on our experience as the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS), we conclude by proposing three ways forward for enhancing solidarity through networks of scholar-activists: knowledge accessibility, cooperative organization, and co-production of knowledge.


Seed sovereignty as decommodification: a perspective from subsistence peasant communities in Southern Mexico

March 2022

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The Journal of Peasant Studies

How do subsistence communities conceptualize their seed sovereignty? What do peasants perceive to be the principal threats to their seed sovereignty and how do they respond to these threats?; and How do local seed sovereignty initiatives relate to the broader ideologies, goals, and strategies of the global seed sovereignty movement? Local conceptions of seeds as a commons are contributing to a multidimensional decommodification project of peasant agriculture and indigenous autonomy. I analyze one particular initiative targeting environmental deterioration and climate change, two of the most salient threats to these communities' seed sovereignty: efforts to halt widespread chemicalization of subsistence agriculture.


Emociones, Semillas Nativas y Cambio Climático: El Movimiento de Soberanía de las Semillas en Chiapas, México

June 2020

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Estudios de Cultura Maya

What role do emotions play in the creation of interpretive frameworks that allow communities to respond effectively to the challenges posed by climate change? This article explores this question empirically from the perspective of small indigenous peasant communities in the central region of Chiapas, Mexico. The study shows that the spiritual, cultural and material meanings that indigenous communities assign to the traditional milpa agroecosystem and to their native seeds, particularly maize, converge in a conjunction of emotions that enables these communities to recognize the risks posed by environmental degradation and climate change, and to mobilize politically around the frame of seed sovereignty. Particularly important is the informal system by which children inherit maize seed from their parents, which imposes on new generations the moral and social obligation of reproducing the milpa. This reproduction is necessary to keep alive the spirits of their ancestors and deities, which are thought to be embodied in the seeds, and to preserve the environmental conditions needed for future generations to live from the maize and the land. The regional social movement around seed sovereignty embraces and amplifies the emotions that underlie this moral and cultural commitment, at the same time as it emphasizes the risks posed by conventional agricultural practices (agrochemical use, deforestation, and quasi-monoculture) and environmental deterioration to the sustenance of the milpa and seeds. Three key foci comprise the agenda of this movement: agroecology, agrobiodiversity conservation, and adaptation of the milpa to climate change.

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... Critics have pushed back by highlighting the substantial minority of the world's population that still lives outside cities and the importance of rural spaces as critical nodes in global networks of food, water and energy provisioning (Aguiar et al., 2023;Grange and Gunder, 2019;He and Zhang, 2022;Krause, 2013). Additionally, post-colonial scholars have warned that focusing solely on urban processes perpetuates the legacy of colonialism and a 'modernisation' agenda that valued rural spaces primarily for their natural resources and portrayed extant rural societies and cultures as 'backward', worthless and replaceable (Aguiar et al., 2023;Gois, 2022;Moreno-Tabarez, 2020a, 2020b. ...

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Planetary rural geographies
Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South
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The Journal of Peasant Studies

... In seed systems, this is particularly relevant to the recovery of crop genetic resources that have been stolen from peasant and Indigenous communities (Kloppenburg, 2010). Moreover, the decommodification of seeds entails maintaining farmer autonomy and protecting against its loss by providing alternative options for seed exchange that reinforce seed sovereignty instead of potentially eroding it (Hernández Rodríguez, 2023). In this way, seed sovereignty, which entails the autonomy of farmers over all seed activities, has stood at the forefront of the decommodification movement (Peschard and Randeria, 2020). ...

Seed sovereignty as decommodification: a perspective from subsistence peasant communities in Southern Mexico
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The Journal of Peasant Studies

... Therefore, landraces are fundamental for generating more inter-and intraspecific diversity, serving as the basis for food production for self-consumption. Moreover, they are adapted to conditions of biotic and abiotic stress that improved seeds may not be able to tolerate (Almekinders and Louwaars, 1999;Hernández-Rodríguez et al., 2020). Farmers produce their own landraces for each agricultural cycle (CONABIO, 2024a;Hernández-Sandoval et al., 2023). ...

Emociones, Semillas Nativas y Cambio Climático: El Movimiento de Soberanía de las Semillas en Chiapas, México

Estudios de Cultura Maya