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Victor M. Toledo

Víctor M. Toledo, research scientist at the Institute for Ecosystem and Sustainability Research (Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad), Morelia Campus UNAM, is a Mexican biologist with PhD from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Dr. Toledo has combined his scientific training with studies in economic policies, agrarian cultures and rural sociology. An expert in ethnoecology (the cross-cultural study of how people perceive and manipulate their environments), his studies and theoretical contributions regarding the relations between indigenous cultures and the natural world are recognized internationally. Dr. Toledo served as head of the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) in the administration of Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador from May 2019 to September 2020. See also: Victor M. Toledo, Biologist, Ethnoecologist: "Passionate for Life".

Conacyt

The Corruption of Science | An International Issue

By Victor M. Toledo, Esperanza Project

In recent decades, corporations have not only consolidated their own bodies of science and technology, they have also been penetrating, co-opting and putting at their service science carried out in public and private universities, in technological and government institution.

October 1, 2021

transformation

7 Aspects of Civilizational Transformation

By Victor M. Toledo, Esperanza Project

In her maturity, the true environmentalist visualizes the seriousness of the current situation and assumes the need for a radical and profound change, for a civilizational transformation.

September 15, 2021

existential crisis

Nature, Covid-19 and Species Fear

By Victor M. Toledo, Esperanza Project

The great challenge is not to deny this fear, but to take responsibility and overcome it, avoiding paralysis and nihilistic or cynical attitudes. In other words, converting fear into preventive and effective action, into awareness of all species.

August 12, 2021

buen vivir

Victor Toledo: From Capitalism to ‘Buen Vivir’

By Victor M. Toledo, Esperanza Project

To seek good living is to adopt an ethic of the collective, communality, solidarity and mutual aid, in which the behavior of the individual is marked by the values of balance with himself, with others, with nature and with immanence or cosmic essence.

August 10, 2021

agroecology in Mexico

Mexico Makes Strides in Agroecology

By Victor M. Toledo, Esperanza Project

Agroecology has arrived at Mexico’s 4T government. It has arrived not as an explicit and coherent State policy, but rather as a set of actions that get better as they are articulated and consolidated.

May 17, 2021

zamponada

Mexico’s 4T Government in a Global Context

By Victor M. Toledo, Resilience.org

In this perspective, what must be assessed is how much the 4T government is making its mark by advancing the forces of global emancipation, the forces of those carrying out a great war for the survival of the human species and the rest of the living world.

February 16, 2021

the Amazon

Rethinking Democracy From the Perspective of Political Ecology

By Victor M. Toledo, Resilience.org

A good part of Western thought has forgotten or concealed the existence of another democracy, which was prior to the representative one, and which can be described as direct, participatory, radical or local.

December 3, 2020

Houses tucked up against the sacred Tepozteco Massif in Tepoztlán, Morelos. Photo: Reed Brundage

Modern Civilization and Its People Without Spirit

By Victor M. Toledo, Resilience.org

Communality, defined by P. Kropotkin (1907) as mutual aid institutions, was present throughout tribal organization, the village commune, the guilds, the city of the Middle Ages, and today it remains a focus of resistance in communities of indigenous cultures and cooperatives (rural, urban and industrial).

November 6, 2020