Planting Seeds For The Future: Re-Indigenizing Agriculture With Vicente Guerrero
In this video learn more about the Vicente Guerrero group and their collaboration with EPIC, spearheading an innovative project with maguey and piñón pine. By recovering prehispanic practices, the group is helping their community address several complex challenges, such as food insecurity, climate extremes, loss of biodiversity, and exclusion of women and youth. In the fight to mitigate climate change, metepantle systems will be fundamental!
El grupo Vicente Guerrero, en colaboración con EPIC, lidera un proyecto innovador. Al recuperar las prácticas prehispánicas, el grupo está ayudando a su comunidad a enfrentar varios desafíos complejos, como la inseguridad alimentaria, los extremos climáticos, la pérdida de biodiversidad y la exclusión de mujeres y jóvenes. En la lucha por mitigar el cambio climático, los sistemas de ‘metepantle’ serán fundamentales.
The Vicente Guerrero group has been defending the rights of campesino and indigenous people since 1979. In their work, they protect and rescue Mexican farmers´ wisdom and identity, balance the relationship between human beings and the natural environment that holds them, and introduce a gender perspective to their community work. This year they are one of the nominees for the national human rights award from the Fundación Don Sergio Mendez Arceo (Premio Nacional de DH Don Sergio Méndez Arceo).