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Agroecology as a response to COVID-19 in the ai’cofan Avié community

Authors

  • Javier Augusto Abi-Saab FLACSO-Ecuador

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33240/rba.v15i4.23291

Keywords:

saúde coletiva, alimento, antropologia ontológica, Amazônia equatoriana

Abstract

From an ontological anthropology, this article discuss how the indigenous community Avié from the ai’cofán nationality in the Ecuadorian Amazon experience COVID-19 as an opportunity to strengthen their territory through agroecological practices that take up traditional values and relationality with the jungle. Agroecology, framed in the context of the ecological mutation, constitutes a response to the new coronavirus when it establishes practices that take care of our health, our bodies and our food. These daily human issues are in focus as the Covid-19 pandemic impacts to human life. The pandemic has emerged for Avié community and for other ecological groups as a symptom of the imbalance and disconnection created by modern, urban and industrial society with nature. Throughout the text, there is an analysis on why agroecological practices and values related to life are a strong and systematic response to the pandemic and to the ecological mutation we are experiencing.

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Published

2021-07-14

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