Diversity at homegarden or solares and its use are influenced by cooperation relations towards the interior of these productive spaces. This information was obtained by a survey using statistical sampling to the families of the Mayan community of Chicán, municipality of Tixmehuac, Yucatan. It was identified and analyzed the participation of household members in relation to the selection of genetic materials in situ, crop management, definition of cooperation strategies and the way of taking advantage of the production obtained in the home gardens. The work done by women represents 38.7 % of the total days executed in home garden, through the exchange gets the 40.1 % of the genetic materials grown in this space, the sale of a portion of the production contributes 6 percent of household income and consumption represents 3.2 % of spending on food. It is concluded that the importance of the family home garden lies in its contribution to consumption, to the domestic economy and enforce the family ties of cooperation.

In this paper, we describe and analyze aspects of the formation and performance of different institutions related to family farmers. They are political organizations: i.e., an NGO, a cooperative of family farmers and two associations, all territorialized, but in different scopes: local, regional and national. Therefore they are distinct organizational processes and they perform in production and commercialization, highlighting the agro-ecological production. To this end, our starting point is the execution of power relations, networks and identities forming different territories, self-centered and hetero-centered territories, nonetheless, overlapping, concomitant and complementary.

The crisis of the Modernity project is also the crisis of its deepest concepts: evolution, progress and development, which expressed the aspirations of reaching an advanced humanity, able to conquer welfare and happiness, but soon were disrupted in a colonialist narcissism seated in a productivist array that has gradually drain the material content of human life. Latin American South reflection questions the economistic vision of development and its conceptual baggage; despite aims to the consolidation of a decolonizing thinking that retrieves the critical tradition to understand the reality of our countries. This paper discusses two divergent approaches used in research on rural development, livelihoods and the strategies of social reproduction. It presents a balance of contributions and limitations that both approaches have as theoretical and methodological tools for research, as well as an historical framing about their political implications. Finally, a philosophical perspective focused on the reproduction of life is remarked, wich means a trans-modern reflection in where the reproductive rationality of the consensual subject is the affirmation of life in the world.

This paper examines the historical role of ejidos and communities in Mexico, as a reference for the public on the property, and today, as one of the “great national problems” with its orientation towards private. Changes that have occurred in the structure and operation of the property, especially from 1992 where “private” gains more space, reducing “public” are discussed. This has significance for the system of land tenure liberal deepening. With the government of Enrique Peña Nieto, is on the table the role it will play in the coming year’s ejidos and communities, but the adopted structural reforms, deepening envision “private” in the property.

Neoliberalism in Latin America has generated diverse conflicts where territory is disputed by the people who live in it and corporations that seek to appropriate it for business. In the “Montaña de Guerrero” region, a conflict this kind has been generated between mining companies, the State, and the people who have resisted dispossession. This study seeks to understand their conflict within the framework of the model of accumulation in which it develops, and using the critical dialectical method. The peasants and indigenous peoples of the Montaña have prevented mining exploitation on their territory and have stopped the environmental disaster that it implicates, prepending their own ways of appropriating the territory. This study of the achievements, limitations and perspectives of the struggle can serve as a referent for other struggles in defense of territory, but also as a contribution to dealing with the current crisis of western civilization.

The purpose of this research is to explain the results of a larger work linked to the study of public policy in higher education at the transition state for the period of 1989-2009. Especially this section is a summary of the last chapter of this investigation. With a total of eight chapters, the analysis focuses on the first four about educational public policies in Mexican universities. For a better explanation their location includes four priorities of specific educational policies, with optional improvements at the universities. Chapters have been listed in order of appearance: 1. Coverage; 2. Financing; 3. Privatization; 4. Quality and Evaluation.

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