Who we are
RIPESS LAC is a continental network that brings together various community-based, associative, co-operative and mutual organisations as well as citizens’ movements that work towards the implementation of solidarity economy in Latin America. We contribute the production and sharing of resources and knowledge that creates the basis of an alternative movement to the current capitalist system.
News from Latin Amercia and the Caribbean—
Trade of agro-ecological production through short circuits.
[pdf-embedder url="http://www.ripess.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Folleto-Insidencia-política-en-ESS.pdf" title="Folleto Insidencia política en ESS"] Solidarity Fairs are one of the strategies that allow for the improvement of rural trade through short circuits: reassessing the importance of family farming in rural and urban territories, achieving the recovery of fairer social relations of production and exchange between the countryside and the city. Read more HERE (in Spanish)
El Limón, Jalisco, Mexico: Agroecological Municipality.
From the beginning of this process, elements of the Social Solidarity Economy have been involved, which have made this public policy possible. The declaration of El Limón as an agro-ecological municipality is part of a regional movement that arose from the interaction of rural and indigenous farmers, civil society organisations, governmental institutions, traditional authorities, official authorities and universities. You [...]
Advocacy for public policies on social solidarity economy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The neoliberal period openly declared in the 1990s, flows in the face of a reality of globalisation that capitalises on the deterritorialization of productive processes. This has been made possible by the implementation of policies that have facilitated, as Bourieu (1997) points out, the reduction of labour costs, the reduction of public spending, and the flexibilization of labour. In addition, [...]