No hay ganancia en la milpa: the agrarian question, food sovereignty, and the on-farm conservation of agrobiodiversity in the Guatemalan highlands

摘要: Although they receive little recognition for their contribution, peasant farmers in the global South play a fundamental role securing long-term food supply. Via self-sufficient agricultural practices, cultivate crop genetic diversity that enables crops to adapt changing environmental conditions. In this paper I draw upon empirical data from Guatemalan center of biodiversity investigate concern market expansion will displace agriculture and undermine cornerstone find even though peasants' livelihoods involve multiple forms provisioning, also engage Polanyian ‘double movement’ protect subsistence-oriented practices potentially deleterious effects markets. so-called ‘agrarian question’ about on viability agriculture, finding although new provisioning are lik...