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  • America Latina - Economia Social y Solidaria

What is Social Solidarity Economy?

Today, perhaps as never before, more people are becoming aware that capitalism has turned our lives and our planet into a commodity. A system that is environmentally unsustainable and socially unjust, and that it is not able to guarantee the happiness and dignified life conditions of all persons in any place on the planet.

Social Solidarity Economy includes a wide range of practices that span economic, social, environmental, political, communitarian or holistic dimensions.

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Trade of agro-ecological production through short circuits.

[pdf-embedder url="http://www.ripess.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Folleto-Insidencia-política-en-ESS.pdf" title="Folleto Insidencia política en ESS"] Solidarity Fairs are one of the strategies that allow for the improvement of rural trade through short circuits: reassessing the importance of family farming in rural and urban territories, achieving the recovery of fairer social relations of production and exchange between the countryside and the city. Read more HERE (in Spanish)

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El Limón, Jalisco, Mexico: Agroecological Municipality.

From the beginning of this process, elements of the Social Solidarity Economy have been involved, which have made this public policy possible. The declaration of El Limón as an agro-ecological municipality is part of a regional movement that arose from the interaction of rural and indigenous farmers, civil society organisations, governmental institutions, traditional authorities, official authorities and universities.   You [...]

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Advocacy for public policies on social solidarity economy in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The neoliberal period openly declared in the 1990s, flows in the face of a reality of globalisation that capitalises on the deterritorialization of productive processes. This has been made possible by the implementation of policies that have facilitated, as Bourieu (1997) points out, the reduction of labour costs, the reduction of public spending, and the flexibilization of labour. In addition, [...]

What is RIPESS?

RIPESS is a global network of continental networks committed to the promotion of Social Solidarity Economy. The member networks themselves (Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania) bring together national and sectorial networks, thus ensuring strong territorial anchoring.

The combined local and global scope gives RIPESS legitimacy to promote SSE, foster intercontinental cooperation, and advocate at different levels. RIPESS members believe in the importance of the globalisation of solidarity, and the ability to build and strengthen an economy that places people and planet at the centre of its activities.

CSA, cohousing,biocoops, recycling,, renewable energy cooperatives, food coop… What is it that allows these thousands of initiatives, this system of values that underpins the social and solidarity economy, to form a system? To create a movement? How can they be made more visible?

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