This project investigates environmental neocolonialism, its mechanism, and its consequences on the...
An English summary of this report is below. The original report, published in Spanish in Revista 5W, follows.
Western food fads and the obsession with everything considered "healthy" often come at a human cost.
The demand for "superfoods" such as avocados, soybeans, açaí, and quinoa has increased in recent years and has resulted in intensive monocultures that threaten the environmental balance of the areas where they are produced—and of the entire planet.
Colonialism is still alive, although it takes different forms and goes by different names. Ships that used to sail from Latin American ports laden with silver, gold, cocoa, and rubber are now enormous cargo ships transporting "superfoods" produced there, depriving local populations of water and productive land.
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