What is it about?
The agricultural policies of left-wing government in Latin America
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The only article that examines the agricultural policies of all left-wing governments in Latin America since the late 1990s to today. The finding show that, although they did introduce some progressive policies no government was able or willing to change the agricultural model. They all continued and even increased their support to industrial large-scale farming. Peasant and indigenous movements who had been crucial in bringing the left to power were also not able to pressure these governments into implementing policies more supportive to small-scale family farmers.
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This article is the concluding article of a special issue of the Journal of Agrarian Change. It draws from all the individual country case-studies written by a great group of international scholars, some of them PhD students and others with very long academic trajectory. I learned a great deal on Latin American agriculture and rural classes by being one of the editors of this issue.
Leandro Vergara-Camus
University of London
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This page is a summary of: The agrarian political economy of left-wing governments in Latin America: Agribusiness, peasants, and the limits of neo-developmentalism, Journal of Agrarian Change, March 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/joac.12216.
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