After our webinar on January 28, Tim Wise wrote to Medium, with a write-up not only discussing our webinar, but also his book Eating Tomorrow and his time spent in Cuetzalán, Mexico, where he found “a well-organized group of indigenous people, more than 30,000 families working in more than 400 cooperatives to grow most of their own food. They exercise a remarkable degree of control over their seeds and their lives.”
“Much of that autonomy,” he writes, owes to the resilience of their indigenous Nahuatl culture and the Mexican Revolution of the early 20th century. The revolution gave them control over their own land, not as private property but as communal lands. More than 50% of Mexico’s agricultural lands are in the hands of indigenous and farming communities, which have resisted decades of efforts to privatize them. Indigenous communities also won the right to limited self-government, allowing them to elect local leaders by traditional means, free of national political party affiliations. They run their own bilingual Nahuatl-Spanish school, reinforcing cultural values.”
You may read his post at this link.