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No hay ganancia en la milpa: the agrarian question, food sovereignty, and the on-farm conservation of agrobiodiversity in the Guatemalan highlands
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Isakson, S. Ryan |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Description | Journal: The Journal of Peasant Studies Although they receive little recognition for their contribution, peasant farmers in the global South play a fundamental role in securing the long-term global food supply. Via their self-sufficient agricultural practices, they cultivate the crop genetic diversity that enables food crops to adapt to changing environmental conditions. In this paper I draw upon empirical data from the Guatemalan center of agricultural biodiversity to investigate the concern that market expansion will displace peasant agriculture and undermine a cornerstone of the global food supply. I find that even though peasants' livelihoods involve multiple forms of market provisioning, they also engage in a Polanyian 'double movement' to protect their subsistence-oriented agricultural practices from the potentially deleterious effects of markets. I also investigate the so-called 'agrarian question' about the effects of market expansion on the viability of peasant agriculture, finding that although new forms of market provisioning are likely exacerbating rural inequality, the income from market activities actually enables rural Guatemalans to reproduce the conditions for peasant agriculture. Ultimately, I observe that the conservation of agricultural biodiversity and, consequently, global food security are contingent upon the 'food sovereignty' of peasant farmers. |
| Related Links | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03066150903353876?needAccess=true |
| Ending Page | 759 |
| Page Count | 35 |
| Starting Page | 725 |
| ISSN | 03066150 |
| e-ISSN | 17439361 |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066150903353876 |
| Journal | The Journal of Peasant Studies |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Volume Number | 36 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2009-10-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: The Journal of Peasant Studies Peasant Livelihoods Peasant Differentiation Agricultural Biodiversity Food Sovereignty |
| Content Type | Text |
| Subject | Arts and Humanities Anthropology Cultural Studies |
