Conviviality with nature in the global South: deforestation and regenerative agriculture

Abstract

Climate changes and environmental degradation are largely attributed to industrial activities and emissions from personal or collective transportation, which activities respond to the capitalist slogan of generating profit. Despite the veracity of this consideration, it should be noted that it tends to exempt developing countries or those that lack such activities from environmental responsibility. This leads us to believe that the conviviality of those countries with nature is perfect without any reproach and that their populations are the caretakers of the forests and waters of the planet. However, the constant disappearance of the entire forest environment and the contamination of scarce water sources in tropical regions is also due to subsistence agricultural methods, as well as traditional hunting and fishing habits. These methods and activities compromise conviviality with nature and push me to ask myself: what would be the ideal strategy to eradicate poverty and at the same time permanently protect the relationship between human beings and their forests? I postulate that the reciprocal agreements initially implemented in Bolivia and in many other Latin American countries can inspire conviviality actions with the environment in the African countries of the Congo Basin. With this work I intend to improve the conviviality between human beings and their forests and waters, analyzing the basis of the strategy of Bolivian reciprocal agreements with their possible applications in other Latin American and African countries.