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STEPS América Latina

STEPS América LatinaSTEPS América Latina’s mission is to make visible alternative visions and experiences of what sustainable and social development might mean in the region, and to help construct and support new, emerging pathways of change.

STEPS América Latina is the Latin America hub of the Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium. It was launched in 2015, and is founded on a longstanding partnership between the STEPS Centre, the Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformación (CENIT) and the University of San Martín (UNSAM). It is hosted by CENIT in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Steps América Latina Posts

Ubuntu seeds transference - Bioleft
Argentina’s ‘Bioleft’ project shares its first open source seeds
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Open Science Map: Charting the development of Open Science practices in Latin America
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Three projects that explore open and collaborative production
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Steps América Latina Projects

‘Pathways’ Network: Transformative pathways to sustainability
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Opening Up Natural Resource-Based Industries for Innovation: Exploring New Pathways for Development in Latin America
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Rethinking Regulation: seeds and drugs in China and Argentina
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Steps América Latina Publications

Seeking unconventional alliances and bridging innovations in spaces for transformative change: the seed sector and agricultural sustainability in Argentina
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Open and Collaborative Developments
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Linking well-being with cultural revitalization for greater cognitive justice in conservation: lessons from Venezuela in Canaima National Park
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More publications

Steps América Latina News

From common good to corporate ownership: The new strategy to modify the Seed Law
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Open Source Seeds
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T-Lab in Buenos Aires: Bioleft, open source seeds
T-Lab in Buenos Aires: Bioleft, co-designing open source seeds
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KEY EVENTS AND LINKS

STEPS AMÉRICA LATINA WEBSITE
STEPS America Latina websiteThis bilingual (English/Spanish) website, hosted by the hub, includes more details of activities and publications in both languages.

Visit the STEPS América Latina website

Follow STEPS América Latina (@stepslatina) on Facebook

Follow STEPS América Latina (@StepsLatina) on Twitter

OPEN SCIENCE MAP

Charting the development of open science practices in Latin America.

OPEN AND CITIZEN SCIENCE CONFERENCE

A conference on open and citizen science, organized by CENIT, Cientópolis and the University of San Martín, on November 2nd in Buenos Aires.

WORKSHOPS ON OPEN AND CITIZEN SCIENCE

A series of monthly workshops and debates in Buenos Aires on open science from April until November 2018.

Meet the Team

Global Consortium
steps global consortium map

Global News

Group photo

Africa

ACTS and Sussex University work together to boost Africa’s access to climate change funds
PASTRES logo

China

Three PhD scholarships on pastoralism in Kenya, China and Italy
A crowd of people walk through deep flooding in New Orleans

Europe

New journal ‘Nature and Space’ launched
Xochimilco, México. Photo: Fotografía: Rocío Brito García, Oikos

North America

Xochimilco and its wetlands: lessons from the earthquake of 2017
Transformations to Sustainability logo

South Asia

New ‘TAPESTRY’ project on transformations from below in uncertain environments

Global Comment

Food

Africa

Narratives of scarcity and the global land rush
Satellite image of solar farm in China

China

Green transformations in India and China: who’s in charge?
Flag of Europe as a round plate with knife and fork

Europe

Is the new European ruling on GM techniques ‘anti-science’?
Sheet with diagrams and writing

North America

Living Aulas: What connects ‘undisciplinary’ research on sustainability?
rural scene in Tamil Nadu

South Asia

Uncovering Transgressive Solidarities

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