How to develop peasant agriculture in Guatemala? Such is the challenge the Guatemalan State faces since 1944, that is, since the “Democratic Spring” tried, without success, to organize the transition from the large latifundios plantations to an agriculture based upon small and medium sized modernized exploitations. The thesis takes the case of Maya-q' eqchi' villages of the valley of Cahabón in Guatemala. Considering the different development policies which “were proposed to them” with their constraints, by national and local elites or by ONG, Q’eqchi’ peasants built their relative autonomy thanks to a long legal fight against the device of the colonato of the Hacienda, then by the painful adaptation to the policies of “agrarian transformat...
Inequitable land ownership has been, and continues to be, an enormous problem confronting Guatemala....
This thesis reconstructs the organizational actions and the fight that the Frente Democratico Campes...
My study explores how indigenous Q’eqchi’ Mayas in Guatemala draw political cohesion from their cult...
How to develop peasant agriculture in Guatemala? Such is the challenge the Guatemalan State faces si...
Comment développer l’agriculture de petits paysans au Guatemala ? C’est la question que l’État guaté...
In the course of half a century, the tropical mountains of Cahabón (a municipality in north-eastern ...
For centuries the indigenous people of Guatemala have sought ways to preserve identity and defend th...
In the course of half a century, the tropical mountains of Cahabón (a municipality in north-eastern ...
This dissertation argues that the Guatemalan Revolution (1944-1954) was a transformational moment th...
French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Repenser la consolidation de la paix au GuatemalaS...
This article presents and discusses, from an empirical case, one of the central elements in the conc...
This social geography thesis examines the reorganization of peasant production and food autonomy in ...
This article examines the role of agriculture as an engine of local development. To this end, the ex...
In this dissertation I investigate the impact of market expansion upon peasant livelihood strategies...
When a Liberal "dictatorship" was set up in Guatemala in 1873, this traditionalist country, with 80 ...
Inequitable land ownership has been, and continues to be, an enormous problem confronting Guatemala....
This thesis reconstructs the organizational actions and the fight that the Frente Democratico Campes...
My study explores how indigenous Q’eqchi’ Mayas in Guatemala draw political cohesion from their cult...
How to develop peasant agriculture in Guatemala? Such is the challenge the Guatemalan State faces si...
Comment développer l’agriculture de petits paysans au Guatemala ? C’est la question que l’État guaté...
In the course of half a century, the tropical mountains of Cahabón (a municipality in north-eastern ...
For centuries the indigenous people of Guatemala have sought ways to preserve identity and defend th...
In the course of half a century, the tropical mountains of Cahabón (a municipality in north-eastern ...
This dissertation argues that the Guatemalan Revolution (1944-1954) was a transformational moment th...
French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Repenser la consolidation de la paix au GuatemalaS...
This article presents and discusses, from an empirical case, one of the central elements in the conc...
This social geography thesis examines the reorganization of peasant production and food autonomy in ...
This article examines the role of agriculture as an engine of local development. To this end, the ex...
In this dissertation I investigate the impact of market expansion upon peasant livelihood strategies...
When a Liberal "dictatorship" was set up in Guatemala in 1873, this traditionalist country, with 80 ...
Inequitable land ownership has been, and continues to be, an enormous problem confronting Guatemala....
This thesis reconstructs the organizational actions and the fight that the Frente Democratico Campes...
My study explores how indigenous Q’eqchi’ Mayas in Guatemala draw political cohesion from their cult...