Beyond Animal Husbandry: The Role of Herders Among the Wayuu of Colombia

Forero, Oscar A.; Bustamante, Clara Viviana Rúa; Ortiz, Juan Ricardo Zambrano

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“…In 2015, Nicolas Maduro, worried about emigration and illegal trade increasing instability in Venezuela, decided to shut the border for a year and a half, decimating this contrabando bueno ("good contraband") and traditional pastoral mobility (Forero et al, 2023).…”

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A Political Ecology of Food Security in La Guajira, Colombia

McKee

2024

MSJ

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Inspired by my experiences while studying abroad in Colombia, in this paper I seek to explain the environmental, social, and political causes of widespread food insecurity in the Colombian department of La Guajira, a rural, isolated desert region with a high percentage of indigenous peoples. I first perform a literature review of geographic research on food security in peripheral regions, followed by a comprehensive case study analysis of La Guajira, drawing together sources from a variety of disciplines, in English and Spanish, in order to provide a new perspective on the region’s crisis through a multiscalar political ecology lens specifically focused on human-environment interactions, marginalization, social difference, and discourses. I find that from racialized frontier capitalism in the early 1900s to contemporary neoliberal extractivism, decades of attempts to integrate the region into national and global economic markets have weakened traditional food systems and substantially increased food insecurity. More broadly, I explore how food security, local agency in food systems, and environmental sustainability can be increased by rethinking our conventional ideas of “development,” “progress,” and “isolation.”

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“…However, before the marginalization brought about by unequal (neo-)colonial institutions, this risk was mitigated and distributed through mobility, bartering, and a diversity of agro-pastoral activities (Forero et al, 2023). Life was hard, but food insecurity was not a constant crisis as it is today.…”

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A Political Ecology of Food Security in La Guajira, Colombia

McKee

2024

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Synergies and Trade-offs Between Cultural and Natural Values of Sacred Sites – a Case Study of Ancient Burial Mounds in Central Europe

Deák,

Bede,

Süveges

et al. 2024

Hum Ecol

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In the Eurasian steppes, ancient burial mounds called ‘kurgans’ are among the most widespread manmade structures. These sacred sites hold cultural values and often provide safe havens for grassland-related plant species. We established links between kurgans' cultural and natural values through a comprehensive multi-layered evaluation of human and landscape history, cultural attributes, and botanical composition on selected mounds in Hungary, Romania, and Serbia. We evaluated factors that can support or endanger the grasslands on kurgans and assessed whether there are synergies or trade-offs between the presence of cultural and natural values. We found that kurgans act as cultural hotspots in transformed landscapes, and we found the following evidence for the synergies between cultural and natural values: i) Extensive land use and management connected to the cultural functions could considerably contribute to the preservation of grassland specialist plants on the mounds. ii) Over the past three centuries, most grasslands we studied were converted to cropland, but the cultural importance of the kurgans could hinder their destruction through ploughing or construction works. However, we also found that built cultural objects decreased the grassland cover area and supported the establishment and spread of several weedy and invasive species. Consequently, to preserve the valuable biocultural systems, it is essential to focus efforts on the maintenance of the already existing traditional cultural functions and not the establishment of new objects.

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Synergies and trade-offs between cultural and natural values of sacred sites – A case study of ancient burial mounds in Central Europe

Deák,

Bede,

Süveges

et al. 2023

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In the Eurasian steppes, ancient burial mounds called ‘kurgans’ are among the most widespread manmade structures. These sacred sites hold cultural values and often provide safe havens for grassland-related plant species. We aimed to establish links between the cultural and natural values of kurgans through a comprehensive multi-layered evaluation of history, cultural attributes, botanical composition, and landscape history on selected mounds situated in Hungary, Romania, and Serbia. We evaluated factors that can support or endanger the grasslands on kurgans and assessed whether there are synergies or trade-offs between the presence of the cultural and natural values. We found that kurgans act as cultural hotspots in transformed landscapes, and we found the following evidences for the synergies between cultural and natural values: i) Extensive land use and management connected to the cultural functions could considerably contribute to the preservation of grassland specialist plants on the mounds. ii) In the studied landscapes, in the past three centuries, the vast majority of grasslands were converted into croplands in the studied landscapes, but the cultural importance of the kurgans could hinder their destruction through demolishment by ploughing or construction works. We also found an important trade-off: built cultural objects not only decreased the area of grassland cover but also supported the establishment and spread of several weedy and invasive species. Consequently, to preserve the valuable natural-cultural systems it is essential to focus efforts on the maintenance of the already existing, traditional cultural functions and not the establishment of new objects.

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Beyond Animal Husbandry: The Role of Herders Among the Wayuu of Colombia

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

A Political Ecology of Food Security in La Guajira, Colombia

A Political Ecology of Food Security in La Guajira, Colombia

Synergies and Trade-offs Between Cultural and Natural Values of Sacred Sites – a Case Study of Ancient Burial Mounds in Central Europe

Synergies and trade-offs between cultural and natural values of sacred sites – A case study of ancient burial mounds in Central Europe

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