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Planting hybrids, keeping landraces: agricultural modernization and tradition among small-scale maize farmers in Chiapas, Mexico

Por: Bellon Corrales, Mauricio Rafael [autor/a].
Tipo de material: Artículo impreso(a) y electrónico Artículo impreso(a) y electrónico Tema(s): Programa de Apoyos Directos al Campo (México) | Maíz | Explotación agrícola en pequeña escala | Política agrícola | Política públicaDescriptor(es) geográficos: Región Frailesca (Chiapas, México) Nota de acceso: Acceso en línea sin restricciones En: World Development. volumen 39, número 8 (August 2011), páginas 1434-1443. --ISSN: 0305-750XNúmero de sistema: 50713Resumen:
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This paper examines how agricultural modernization and tradition interact among small-scale commercially-oriented maize farmers by studying shifts in area and number of farmers planting hybrids and landraces. Results show substantial yield increases but reductions in production and area planted, associated with widespread hybrid adoption and landrace abandonment. Agricultural government programs have played an important role fostering commercialization and hybrid adoption. Cultural preferences, and possibly an anti-poverty program coupled with women's empowerment, have fostered landrace retention. Hybrids and landraces have overlapping functions in farmers' livelihoods influenced by interdependent production and consumption decisions, cultural preferences and imperfect markets even under agricultural modernization.

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This paper examines how agricultural modernization and tradition interact among small-scale commercially-oriented maize farmers by studying shifts in area and number of farmers planting hybrids and landraces. Results show substantial yield increases but reductions in production and area planted, associated with widespread hybrid adoption and landrace abandonment. Agricultural government programs have played an important role fostering commercialization and hybrid adoption. Cultural preferences, and possibly an anti-poverty program coupled with women's empowerment, have fostered landrace retention. Hybrids and landraces have overlapping functions in farmers' livelihoods influenced by interdependent production and consumption decisions, cultural preferences and imperfect markets even under agricultural modernization. eng

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