From the right to food to Good Eating. Notes for an XXI century agrarian question

Abstract

Agroextractivism and its effects on the enjoyment and access tofood in developing countries populations, is, without a doubt, a post-pandemic issue that urgently needs to reconceptualize, in the light of the devastating effects of COVID 19 on the population with food and nutritional deficiencies derived from the imbalance in the agri-food production chain , in the current context of the globalisation of commodities: food from here, there and nowhere, which arrives at our table without food and cultural identity, and with questionable nutritional value. Through a descriptive analysis, bibliographic content related to agroextractivism, published from 2000 to 2020, was analyzed, seeking to recognize its impact on the food systems of indigenous peasant communities in Mexico, the Caribbean and the Southern Cone, considering the effects on the biodiversity of the ecosystems of the communities and agricultural knowledge, climate change, and the enjoyment of the right to food and the access to it.. As a result of this literature review, newconceptual elements were found, recognizing the right to food as a peasant human right; and Good Eating as the agri-food worldview of the peasant communities of the indigenous peoples of Latin America. In addition, the right to food and Good Eating are proposed as emerging epistemic paradigms for the study and analysis of the agrarian question of the XXI Century.