For the Aztecs, violence was all-meaningful and sacrifice was required for life. The Aztecs believed that violence was strongly associated with land because land satisfied the gods. Mesoamerican conception of land valued place rather than space. The Aztecs were dependent on the land and had a reciprocal relationship with it. This relationship involved violent acts, [...]
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Violence and the Occupation of Land in Mesoamerica
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African farmers displaced by foreign agro-industrial investors.
By Emma Kirwan I read a most disturbing article in the New York Times this morning. African governments are leading a new, controversial trend for solving domestic food insecurity and economic impoverishment: leasing land to foreign countries for “development.” As presented by the New York Times, let’s use Mali to illustrate what’s happening. Along the [...]
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“I learned to live like this.”
This story was contributed by Kristy Lynn Allen, who is volunteering with rural farmers in La Merced, a rural mountain community an hour from Ecuador’s capital city Quito. Kristy describes the courage that kept a highland farmer afloat in his struggle to regain control over his family’s land. In 1976, Luis Fernando was born and [...]
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