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Article de Périodique
Tough Tradeoffs: Coca crops and agrarian alternatives in Colombia (2021)
Auteur(s) :
GUTIERREZ-SANIN, F.
Année
2021
Page(s) :
art. 103156
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
MAR (Marchés / Markets)
Thésaurus géographique
COLOMBIE
Thésaurus mots-clés
COCA
;
AGRICULTURE
;
ECONOMIE
;
CULTURE ALTERNATIVE
;
CULTURE ILLICITE
Résumé :
This paper compares coca with mainstream agrarian economies in Colombia. It shows that the country's legal and illicit sectors share several fundamental characteristics and processes. Due to its very illegality, coca is endowed with positive characteristics that are not easily found elsewhere: it is a productive - even in the absence of basic public goods -, familial, labor intensive, smallholder agriculture, relatively resistant to monoculture. Furthermore, different processes of social change have mitigated some of the typical problems of agrarian frontiers linked to global markets. In turn, its illegal status also imposes extreme costs over peasants and other social sectors. On the one hand, due to coca producers can escape from the "reproductive squeeze" and extreme pattern of land concentration that affect other peasants; on the other, coca becomes an unending source of risk and distress. This contradiction puts peasants in front of very tough tradeoffs, which in turn demand a careful reconsideration of what "alternative" development can mean in the Colombian context.
Affiliation :
Instituto de Estudios Politicos y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Observatorio de Restitucion y Regulacion de Derechos de Propiedad Agraria, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
Observatorio de Restitucion y Regulacion de Derechos de Propiedad Agraria, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
Cote :
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