Comments on: Climate & Food Security: Re-thinking Vulnerability http://cwis.org/FWE/2011/12/08/climate-change-and-food-security-re-thinking-vulnerability/ An Online Daily Journal of the Center for World Indigenous Studies Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:42:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dcgray http://cwis.org/FWE/2011/12/08/climate-change-and-food-security-re-thinking-vulnerability/#comment-847 dcgray Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:16:05 +0000 http://cwis.org/FWE/?p=2403#comment-847 I believe farmers on many family farms in the U.S. in the 1950's and 1960's might have shared this view of their daily work lives: [...subsistence perspective...focuses on the creation, recreation and support of life and it has no other purpose than this. It is life that stands at the centre of this vision, rather than money, economic growth or profit.] This is a refreshing description of contemporary subsistence farmers in Mexico, and placed in historical perspective, provides strong justification for inclusion of these communities in the dialogue on climate change and food security. I believe farmers on many family farms in the U.S. in the 1950′s and 1960′s might have shared this view of their daily work lives:

[...subsistence perspective...focuses on the creation, recreation and support of life and it has no other purpose than this. It is life that stands at the centre of this vision, rather than money, economic growth or profit.]

This is a refreshing description of contemporary subsistence farmers in Mexico, and placed in historical perspective, provides strong justification for inclusion of these communities in the dialogue on climate change and food security.

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