In this scenario, it is important to discuss strategies for a sustainable and inclusive recovery that incorporates the needs of Latin American rurality. The territorial approach that Rimisp has sustained throughout its trajectory can be useful in providing solutions to these challenges. However, there is a need to reflect on how, from a territorial perspective, in the context of a global and interconnected crisis, issues such as the food and environmental crisis, social protests and new expectations of people’s wellbeing that go beyond the boundaries of rurality can be addressed.

In the last 3 years, Rimisp has followed the regional contingency on the ground through different projects that operate in the regional rurality; in Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico. For this reason, we believe it is important to convene different social actors that have participated in these processes to reflect on the experiences associated with rural territories, in order to think, from the territories, how to deploy solutions for a world in full transformation and with an uncertain destiny.