Inspired by experiences in Álvaro Obregón, or Gui’Xhi’ Ro in Zapotec, this paper discusses ideas of popular ecological struggle and self-defense.

Shedding light on Venezuela’s current situation, inquiring into food shortages, lines, and ‘riots'.

Analysing the rural dimensions of authoritarian populism through the Paraguayan experience.

Exploring the efforts of a group of smallholder farmers who are contesting the attempts of powerful landholder to construct an equivalence between them and the Brazilian “people.”

"If farmers expect society to help protect them against the crushing effect of surpluses, they must be prepared to protect society by working out permanent arrangements for storing of reserve food supplies. Both farmers and non-farmers have a responsibility to each other, and any dodging of this responsibility by either group is likely to end in disaster.” Former US secretary of agriculture Henry A. Wallace

To what extent is the Agroecological Collective of Ecuador scaling and locating agroecology in a counter-hegemonic process in Ecuador?

What are the current context and consequences of Mexico's wind energy policy in the rural setting of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec?

How is green grabbing facilitated by ‘authoritarian populist’ governments in Brazilian Amazonia, and how are indigenous peoples fighting back?

What led the jornaleros of San Quintin who rose up in 2015 to declare they were tired of being the “slaves of the 21st Century”?

How can peasant territories foster emancipation?

What are the dilemmas faced by peasant social movements in the face of the dichotomy between "progressive governments" and the rise to power of the new authoritarian and "populist" rights?

How are populations of diverse social and ethnic origins involved in recent processes of biophysical resource grabbing in Venezuela?

What are the roots of Puerto Rico’s unending nightmare?

What is the toll of downward mobility in rural and smalltown America?

What will happen when revenues from extractivism begin to dry up, and the short-term consumer boom, the welfare payments, and the class alliances that go with them, start to unravel?

How is authoritarian populism reconfiguring relationships between timber companies and riberhino communities in Brazilian Amazonia?

How has the transition away from tobacco growing affected rural communities in the state of Kentucky?

How can we support cross-cultural empathy and an improved understanding of the unique and diverse contexts from which support for authoritarian populism is gained?

How is political culture produced and contested in a small working-class community in rural Texas?

What has Ortega's victory meant for progressive environmental and social policies in Nicaragua?