SENE BUAË REVISTA

The document reports on the third Sustainability School organized by COECOCeiba AT in the community of Juanilama, Costa Rica. It advocates for 'Buen Vivir' (Good Living) as a foundation for sustainability, emphasizing the role of popular education in descolonizing thought and empowering social movements. The text contrasts the community-led agroecological practices and forest management in Juanilama with the destructive impacts of industrial agribusiness, such as pineapple and sugarcane monocultures. It further calls for climate justice, the rejection of carbon offsets and free trade agreements, and the promotion of food sovereignty through peasant mobilization and the recovery of ancestral knowledge.

• The 'Buen Vivir' (Good Living) perspective is presented as a method for the true defense and recovery of territory by recovering ancestral practices to achieve a 'descolonización del pensamiento' (decolonization of thought) and build permanent alternatives.
• Popular Education is identified as a critical political tool for the ecological movement to break away from authoritarian, vertical formal education and foster a collective mentality necessary for creating ecological societies.
• In Costa Rica's North Zone, industrial agribusiness—specifically pineapple and sugarcane exports—is described as a 'modelo depredador y capitalista' (predatory and capitalist model) that violates labor and social rights, contaminates water bodies with toxic waste, and displaces rural populations.
• The community of Juanilama provides a model of resistance through the Asociación Agroecológica de Juanilama, which manages a tropical forest reserve and combines community rural tourism with peasant planting practices to avoid succumbing to agribusiness.
• The document argues for 'justicia climática' (climate justice), criticizing carbon credit trading as a distraction from structural changes and demanding that the true responsible parties—transnational corporations—be held accountable for the climate crisis.
• Free Trade Agreements (TLCs) are viewed as mechanisms to maintain capitalist consumption and privatize profits while socializing costs; specifically, the document notes a clause in the Costa Rica-Canada TLC that allows for open-pit mining.
• The Vía Campesina organization is highlighted for its goals of integral agrarian reform, food sovereignty (replacing 'food security'), and fighting against the mining model and corporations like Monsanto.

APA

Aguilar, E., & Porras, M. (n.d.). SENE BUAË REVISTA. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2009-04-11_costa-rica-publication-sustainability-school.pdf

Chicago

Aguilar, Eduardo, and Mariana Porras. SENE BUAË REVISTA. Friends of the Earth International, n.d. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2009-04-11_costa-rica-publication-sustainability-school.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{aguilarndsene, author = {Aguilar, Eduardo and Porras, Mariana}, title = {{SENE BUAË REVISTA}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2009-04-11_costa-rica-publication-sustainability-school.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }