The Stuggle for Local Autonomy

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The Stuggle for Local Autonomy

• David Barkin
• Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
• Xochimilco
• barkin_at_cueyatl.uam.mx

Sources Wealth, Poverty and Sustainable
Development Innovaciones Mexicanas en el Manejo
del Agua
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Fighting Poverty Ignoring Local Epistemologies

• Blaming victims vs. Mobilizing capacities

• Welfare orientation (Charity vs. Self-help)
• Education (Formal schooling vs. Learning as a
  process)
• Innovation (Technology vs. Post-normal science)

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Alternative Statrategiesfor Local Development

• Fundamental Principles

• Autonomy
• Self-sufficiency
• Productive Diversification
• Ecosystem Management

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The War Economy

• Societies Respond to Improve their own conditons
• Improving social and physical infrastructure
  water sewage literacy etc.
• Reconquer food self-sufficiency
• Social tourism
• Rehabilitate green zones and protected areas
• Promote popular development

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Society Responds

• Forging local strategies
• Constructing new models for coexistence in the
  face of pressures created by globalization they
  are not simply holdovers from the past
• Reversing the threats from globalization to the
  wretched of the earth

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The CHALLENGE

• STRENGTHEN COMMUNITIES
• Economics
• Political and institutional management
• STRENGTHEN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
• Prevent degradation
• Rehabilitate ecosystems

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Case Study (1) Ecotourism Monarch Butterfly

• To control a community, disdaining its ability
  to protect the forest
• Reduces rain water harvesting and threatenes a
  watershed

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Case Study (2)Huatulco, Oaxaca

• Mega-project for beach toursim
• (proposed 25 luxury hotels)
• Result
• Endangering an Acquifer

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Case Study (2)Huatulco

• Response from 70.000 people living in
  surrounding mountains (700.000 has.)
• Integrates Silviculture
• Conservation and Production

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Conservation
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Reforestation
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IRRIGATION
D R I P
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Productive Silviculture
Waste wood from pruning
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Fair Trade
(http//www.artinoaxaca.addr.com)
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Case Study (3) Water Forever Mixteca,Oaxaca

• Reinvent a regional system of water management
  cooperation among isolated communities
• (1,500.000 has. 150.000 indig. people)

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PARAJE EL TERRERO
REFORESTACIÓN Y BORDEO CON VEGETACIÓN ÚTIL PARA
CONSERVACIÓN DE SUELOS
PRESAS FILTRANTES
REPRESA DE CAPTACIÓN
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Case Study (4)Water Treatment Plants

• Create incentives for treating waste water
• Environmental management
• Commercial activities
• Generate employment
• Consolidate community organizations

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Wastewater Treatment Plants
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Case Study (5) Tradicional Innovation

• Generate new products
• Price premiums (organic and green products
• pork lite Omega-3 eggs)
• Reduce contamination and recharge acquifers
• Strengthen community and the role of women
• Strengthen cultural identities

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INNOVATING TRADITION

• Point of departure
• Discover local knowledge avocados reduce
  cholesterol in mammels
• Response
• Develop a diet for hogs to rescue traditional
  backyard farming systems

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OTHER WORLDS ARE POSSIBLE

• SAY NO TO TINA
• There is no Alternative
• (Margaret Thatcher World Bank)

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The Stuggle for Local Autonomy

• Muchas Gracias!
• David Barkin
• barkin_at_cueyatl.uam.mx