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SAMANO RENTERIA, Miguel Angel. Agro-ecology as an alternative food security for indigenous communities. Rev. Mex. Cienc. Agríc [online]. 2013, vol.4, n.8, pp.1251-1266. ISSN 2007-0934.

The world economy is facing a global financial crisis; the capital accumulation model shows signs of exhaustion. This has resulted in the increase in food prices between April, 2007 and April, 2008; international food prices rose 54% in the main cereals (92%) and oil (84%). (FAO, FAOSTAT, index of food prices, Gómez, 2008) and the number of poor people has increased to such an extent that in 2010 it is considered that in the world, one billion people are hungry. FAO estimated that, the number of undernourished people in 2008 could have reached 915 million and will exceed 1000 million in 2009. (Un Millennium Goals Report 2010). The right to have food is a fundamental human right, and should seek alternatives to eliminate the scourge of hunger. Conventional agriculture is committed to the third wave of the Green Revolution to increase food production in the world, with the application of biotechnology and the use of GMOs, although up to this date there is no evidence that these genetically modified organisms, may bring or no effect on the feeding of humans. Behind this new green revolution these big monopolies producing seed, chemical and agricultural machinery, to profit from the transfer of technology that would make farmers dependent many of this "new technology", having to pay royalties to the producers of Monsanto GM seeds as Cargill, and others that have ventured into this area of transgenic engineering. Given the crisis of neoliberalism and the worsening food crisis suffered several countries of the world, climate change is necessary to promote a truly sustainable agriculture model that allows the survival of indigenous peasants and, since the agricultural model of conventional tech has proven to be sustainable, the large number of inputs required to produce food. In this essay we analyze that agro-ecology is indeed an alternative for the farmers and indigenous peoples and their communities. It is a resilience dealing way facing the globalizing modernity that wants to exterminate and disappear them. But these social subjects, which for some scholars of the rural area are a social actor in extinction, are resisting to disappear and look for alternatives along with some intellectuals who bet for the via of the peasant and indigenous production, based on systematic knowledge in science of agro-ecology.

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