Community-based economics

DESCRIPTION:

We explore the form in which indigenous communities and peoples organize and sustain community life in order to preserve themselves and the environment in which they live in. Our purpose is to identify the contributions and knowledges that allow us to define the economic organization of strategic community projects.

PRINCIPLES:

• It is based on the guidelines on which the economic and organizational systems of the Indigenous Peoples are built, whose base has been the deep understanding of the ways in which life is sustained and preserved in the universe, and then expressed in everyday practices that cover all areas of life.
• It is also based on the principles of Participatory Action Research.

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• Economic systems of the Indigenous Peoples (principles, models, practices).
• Sustainability of indigenous media.