Justicia alimentaria, de la tierra y climática en el Caribe: respuestas sistémicas al COVID-19 como estado de emergencia climática prolongada

• Published in: Ecología política : cuadernos de debate internacional 2020-12 (60), p.33-42
• Main Authors: Barreto Sánchez, David Eduardo, Gutiérrez Escobar, aura, Toro Pérez, Catalina, Algoed, Line, Bassett, Pambana, Marin Coleman, YaYa, Ferrando, Tomaso, Johnson, Hugh, Juliá Pacheco, Mariolga, Livingston Forbes, Graybern, Mussington, John, Northover, Patricia, Paddock, Jessica
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1130-6378; 1130-6378
• DOI: 10.53368/EP60MACep03

Through an interdisciplinary conversation in the context of the project: Food Insecurity in Times of Climate Change: Sharing and Learning from Bottom-up Responses in the Caribbean Region, we expose the voices, history and knowledge of local communities and activists in Barbuda, Belize, Colombia (San Andres and Providencia), Jamaica and Puerto Rico to the food insecurity and ecological crisis in the Caribbean. The composite effect of climate injustice and the COVID-19 pandemic is outlined as anthropogenic crises that thrive on inequality and dependency in the Caribbean. The community experiences of the project countries reveal an emergence of knowledge and diverse ways of producing food and relating to the environment as alternatives to development. It is a criticism of the solutions imposed from above that ignore the knowledge, needs and practices of popular ecologies in the Caribbean.