naturaleza: riqueza de los pobres la importancia de los recursos naturales en la erradicación de la pobreza

The document examines the relationship between environmental health and rural poverty, asserting that neoliberal policies—such as trade liberalization, privatization, and industrial agribusiness—exacerbate poverty by stripping local communities of their natural resources. It provides global case studies where community-led management of forests, fisheries, and water, alongside sustainable energy and agroecological farming, offers a viable path toward poverty eradication and environmental restoration.

• There is a direct correlation between environmental degradation and rural poverty, as approximately 70% of the world's poor live in rural areas and depend on their local environment for daily survival.
• Neoliberal economic globalization, driven by transnational corporations and international financial institutions, increases environmental devastation and poverty by promoting industrial-scale projects like mega-dams, intensive agriculture, and commercial logging.
• Trade liberalization and the 'trickle-down' theory are described as myths; empirical evidence suggests that trade liberalization does not necessarily lead to economic growth and often fails to reduce poverty in the least developed countries.
• Industrial agribusiness and the 'Green Revolution' have failed to eradicate hunger and instead caused indebtedness, land loss, and biodiversity erosion for small farmers.
• Genetically modified (GM) crops are viewed as a corporate strategy to open new markets rather than a tool to fight hunger, with over 99% of commercial GM crops used for animal feed, oil, or fiber in just four countries.
• Community-led management of natural resources is presented as a successful alternative for poverty reduction, as seen in the use of participatory mapping by the Penan in Sarawak and the recovery of ancestral lands by the Pehuenche in Chile.
• Climate change disproportionately affects the poorest populations who contributed least to the problem; the report notes that 150 million climate refugees could emerge in the next 50 years, with 75 million from the Asia-Pacific region.
• The report advocates for the unconditional cancellation of external debt for poor countries and the recognition of an 'ecological debt' owed by the Global North to the Global South due to decades of resource exploitation.

APA

Doherty, A., Baltodano, J., de Clerck, P., Bruil, J., Ginting, L., Hall, R., Lopez, J., Lovera, S., Pearce, C., Raman, M., Sofa, F., & Sullivan, D. (2005). naturaleza: riqueza de los pobres la importancia de los recursos naturales en la erradicación de la pobreza. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/foei-poverty-all-esp-lr.pdf

Chicago

Doherty, Ann, Javier Baltodano, Paul de Clerck, Janneke Bruil, Longgena Ginting, Ronnie Hall, Juan Lopez, et al. naturaleza: riqueza de los pobres la importancia de los recursos naturales en la erradicación de la pobreza. Friends of the Earth International, 2005. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/foei-poverty-all-esp-lr.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{doherty2005naturaleza, author = {Doherty, Ann and Baltodano, Javier and de Clerck, Paul and Bruil, Janneke and Ginting, Longgena and Hall, Ronnie and Lopez, Juan and Lovera, Simone and Pearce, Catherine and Raman, Meena and Sofa, Farah and Sullivan, Damian}, title = {{naturaleza: riqueza de los pobres la importancia de los recursos naturales en la erradicación de la pobreza}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2005}, month = jul, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/foei-poverty-all-esp-lr.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }