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Latin America

8 publications

• Solidarity finance through community development banks as a strategy for reshaping local economies: lessons from Banco Palmas

  Rausp. Revista de Administração., São Paulo, v.47, n.3, p.500-515, jul./ago/set. 2012

  Genauto Carvalho de França Filho, Jeová Torres Silva Júnior, Ariádne Scalfoni Rigo, July 2012

• The Feminist Perspectives Towards Transforming Economic Power. Buen Vivir: An introduction from a women’s rights perspective in Bolivia.

  Martha Lanza, March 2012

• The amazing power of cooperatives. Texts selected from the international call for paper proposals. Cooperatives Summit Quebec 2012

  Marie-Joëlle Brassard, Ernesto Molina, 2012

• The Social Economy International. Perspectives on Economic Solidarity

  Edited by Ash Amin, Zed Books, UK, September 2009

• The silent change. Recovered businesses in Argentina

  Esteban Magnani, Editorial Teseo, Argentina, 2009

• Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina’s Worker-Run Factories

  Edited by the Lavaca Collective, Haymarket Books, USA, 2007

• World Social Forum: Challenging Empires, 2nd edition

  Jai Sen, Peter Waterman (Ed.), Black Rose Books, Canada, 2007

• Transcending Neoliberalism. Community-Based Development in Latin America

  Edited by Henry Veltmeyer, Anthony O’Malley, Kumarian Press, May 2001

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• Conference on Economic Degrowth: David Barkin, Barcelona, 2010

  March 2010

27 case studies

• The Community Empowerment International Fund (La Limonada – Guatemala)

  Samuel Brizuela, January 2013

• The CEECEC Handbook: Ecological Economics from the Bottom-Up

  2012

• La Base / The Working World (Buenos Aires – Argentina)

  Felipe Zalamea, November 2011

• Prainha do Canto Verde (Ceará – Brazil)

  Felipe Zalamea, November 2011

• Habitat Improvement Workshop - Temha (Filadelfia – Paraguay)

  Felipe Zalamea, November 2011

• The meanings of social currency on a peripheral neighborhood of a large urban center in Brazil.

  International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

  Juliana de Oliveira Barros Braz, Diego dos Santos Veiga Silva, February 2011

• From Protest, to Proposal, to Project in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

  Steffen Lajoie, 2010

• Chiemgauer, Germany and Banco Palmas, Brazil

  Social money for sound community development

  Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota, January 2009

• URGENCI: An international network of Local and Solidarity based Partnerships between Producers and Consumers

  3rd International Symposium

  Judith Hitchman, February 2008

• City of God (Cidade de Deus) in Rio de Janeiro

  The challenge of local development linked to community action

  Caio Silveira, April 2007

• Meeting local needs 2

  Case study of the book Social and environmental responsibility, 2006

  Vincent Commenne, 2006

• Organizations promoting CSR

  Case study from the book Social and environmental responsibility, 2006

  Vincent Commenne, 2006

• Association for the Wholistic Development of Rural Communities (ASOPRICOR)

  Yvon Poirier, July 2005

• Interview of Oscarina Camillo, Cooperativa de Trabalho na Área de Psicologia - Coop Mútua-Ação (Work Cooperative in the Field of Psychology - Mutual Action Coop in Santo André (Brasil, Sao Paolo)

  Oscarina is a representative of the workers affiliated to the Brazilian ECOSOL movement, leader of the Sao Paulo Solidarity Economy Forum (Foro Paulista de Economía Solidaria), and second representative of the southeastern region in the executive coordination of the BSEF-Brazilian Solidarity Economy Forum.

  Rosemary Gomes, March 2004

• Interview of ORNI - Organización Nahuatl Independiente, Nuevo Nexaca, Puebla, Mexico

  The ORNI is a Social Solidarity Society gathering six Indigenous Villages of the region of Nuevo Nexaca, Puebla, Mexico. Promotion of work in the field of health and food according to the principles of self-management and fair trade. Importance to remember the history of the community, which implies the importance of the role of women.

  Chilo Villareal, March 2004

• Interview of NETECO - Integral Human Rights Organi

  Importance of the work of group and to improve food.

  Chilo Villareal, March 2004

• Interview de Monsieur Walter Velasquez Nunez, Gies Cuzco - Conseil en affaires agricoles - Pérou

  Gies Cuzco - Conseil en affaires agricoles

  Humberto Ortiz Roca, January 2004

• Interview of Walter Velasquez Nuñez, GIES Cusco - R

  GIES Cusco - Rural Business Advice Services

  Humberto Ortiz Roca, January 2004

• Interview with Salomón Hernán Zerpa - President of the PUNHA Network and Mayor of Abrapampa -Argentina

  Organizations and different social actors who had been called to “Espacio NOA” were taking part in the meeting “Social organizations and politics: Do we join in or are we already in? »

  Jose Luis Coraggio, January 2004

• Interview of Pariona Fredy, Fair trade shop, Huancayo (Peru)

  Activity in the domain of fair trade

  Humberto Ortiz Roca, January 2004

• Interview of Lozada Seminario Marianella, Solidarity Economy Initiative Group - Chiclayo (Peru)

  Activity in the domain of formation, production and comecialisation in Peru

  Humberto Ortiz Roca, January 2004

• Interview of Austreberta Luján, Chatino Indians Community, Oaxaca region in Mexico

  Production and consumption of organic Jamaica coffee of quality according to principles of solidarity economy.

  Chilo Villareal, January 2004

• Interview of Maria Guadalupe Castañeda, Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico

  Works in the field of the support to agricultural projects according to principles of fair trade. Offers support for organizations through advisory services, planning, and assessment in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico.

  Chilo Villareal, December 2003

• Interview with CEDESA and REMECC (Mexican Fair Trade Network)

  The first organization works on integral development in several farmers communities in the region of Dolores Hidalgo Guanajuato. The second, on trade at a national level; they are part of the (Latinamerican Network of Community Trade), based in Equador. Works in the context of solidarity economy towards selfconsumption and responsible consumption in order to achieve a selfcentered development.

  Chilo Villareal, December 2003

• Interview with Luis Andraca, member of the Council of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Argentina

  The following interview was carried out on 22 November 2003 in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina), where different organizations and social actors who had been called to « Espacio NOA »[2] were taking part in the meeting « Social organizations and politics: Do we join in or are we already in? »

  Jose Luis Coraggio, November 2003

• Interview with Joaquim Alves de Souza, Cooperativa Agroecológica Pela Vida/COOPEVIDA (Agro-ecological Cooperative for Life) - São Raimundo das Mangabeiras, Maranhão, Brazil.

  Joaquim is a member of COOPEVIDA. At present he is the General Coordinator of CENTRU-MA (Educational and Cultural Center for the Rural Worker) and Vice President of CCAMA (Association of Agriculturalist Cooperatives of Maranhão). Together with his family, he owns a 33-hectare (81.5-acre) property in Mangabeiras County, southern Maranhão.

  Marcos Arruda, November 2003

• Meeting local needs: Fersol in Brazil

  Case study of the book Social and environmental responsibility, 2006

  Vincent Commenne

13 analyses

• The launch of the People’s Summit: « Transition now! » Porto Alegre (Brazil) 24th to 29th January 2012

  Martine Theveniaut, March 2012

• Identity, participation and firm longevity: An Analysis of Worker Cooperatives through the Lens of Argentina’s Recovered Firm Movement

  Article for the Cooperatives Summit, Québec 2012

  Alexandra Reese, 2012

• Working Paper Territory and Local Development: A Place-based Perspective

  International Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy, FIESS 2011

  Neil Bradford, October 2011

• Recovering and Valuing Other Ethical Pillars Buen Vivir

  Working Paper for the International Workshop Biocivilization for the Sustainability of Life and the Planet in the run-up to the Rio+20 Conference Rio de Janeiro, 9 to 12 August 2011

  Ricardo Jiménez, August 2011

• Participatory Budgeting: From Porto Alegre, Brazil to the U.S.

  Mike Mensner, Juscha Robinson, September 2010

• Public Policy Trends and Instruments Supporting the Social Economy: International Experiences

  This paper highlights public policy trends and instruments from around the world that use the Social Economy as a framework to enhance socio-economic development and environmental sustainability.

  Crystal Tremblay, April 2010

• Advancing the Social Economy for Socio-economic Development: International perspectives

  The growing attention to the concept of the Social Economy (SE) is indicative of efforts to address inter-related social, economic and environmental issues affecting the sustainable development of people, communities, and nations, and the inter-dependent nature of global human development.

  Crystal Tremblay, March 2010

• Making Other Economies Possible: Inequality, Consciousness-Raising and the Solidarity Economy in Chile

  Lindsay Rose Adams, 2010

• The Social Contract for Housing, Ecuador

  Silvana Ruiz Pozo, 2009

• Argentina: Building a Solidarity Economy

  A solidarity economy is being built by thousands of workers in Argentina, in rural cooperatives, worker-run factories and small businesses linked by networks.

  Viviana Alonso, February 2006

• Study on Economic Actors’s Societal Responsibility - Research Report on the Situation in Latin America

  Research report on Latin America, part of the study on Economic Actors’ Societal Responsibility (EASR) carried out by the WSSE’s EASR Workshop.

  Ismael Muñoz Portugal, September 2005

• The power of facts Lessons from complementary currencies in Argentina

  European Conference on Community Currencies Bad Honnef, July 18-22nd, 2004

  Heloisa Primavera, July 2004

• Community Currency Systems: A Co-operative Option for the Developing World ?

  Peter Moers, 1998

3 public contributions

• The Citizen’s Basic Income to Build Democracy and Justice

  Essay presented to NOPOOR Project in Paris, June 12 2012

  Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy, June 2012

• Complementary currencies for sustainable local economies in Central America

  International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

  February 2011

• Wealth, money and power: the ephemeral “Argentinean miracle” of the exchange networks

  This text is Heloisa Primavera’s presentation during the introduction to the National Day of Solidarity-Based Barter and Economy, organized on 6 September 2002 by the Instituto del Conurbano, the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento and the PNUD. It was one of the reports from the panel on the phenomenon of money within barter networks and contributes to an understanding of the Argentine « case » from a more anthropological and predictive perspective.

  Heloisa Primavera, December 2002