Projects of Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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Variability and climate change impacts on the rural productive systems and on peasants’ living conditions and development – a vision from the rural population of Cuzco and Apurímac
Andean rural populations and, in particular, the peasant communities of the Peruvian southern Andes, are characterized by their cultural traditions, adapting to the high environmental variability conditions, typical of the tropical highland ecosystems of the central Andes. These cultural traditions materialize in agricultural and livestock production and food safety systems and strategies and in forms […]
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Rethinking national history in the margins of the state: local narratives in times of conflicts and transformation
In the last decade, some local narratives have emerged thanks to ongoing social and political transformations. Indigenous people have raised their own political voice in many countries of the global south. Even remote indigenous communities have found the way to create their own narratives in securing their land in the context of political conflict and […]
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New articulation styles between the Andes and the capital: the case of rural territorial dynamics in Jauja, Junín
The Project seeks to understand the long-term development dynamics in the rural Andes (in Jauja) identifying the role of actors internal and external to the territory and the coalitions that would have consolidated to generate more or less inclusive growth dynamics.
