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Tipo de Material:	Libro
Título :	Learning from Carchi: agricultural modernisation and the production of decline
Autor :	Sherwood, Stephen G.
Fecha de Publicación :	2009
ISBN :	978-90-8585-316-9
Cita Sugerida :	Sherwood, Stephen G., 2009. Learning from Carchi: agricultural modernisation and the production of decline
Descriptores / Subjects :	DESARROLLO AGRÍCOLA PRODUCCIÓN AGRÍCOLA MODERNIZACIÓN CARCHI PAPAS REFORMA AGRARIA COOPERACIÓN TÉCNICA
Paginación:	287 páginas
Índice / Contenido:	ÍNDICE | Acknowledgements vi | Figures x | Tables xi | Boxes xii | Acronyms xiii | Glossary of Kichwa and Spanish terminology xv | CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 | Uncanny timing: a prelude 3 | Arrival in Carchi: discovering the challenges of abundance 5 | A PhD project 7 | The dissertation 8 | Outline 18 | CHAPTER 2: MODERN POTATO PRODUCTION IN CARCHI 21 | Summary 21 | Geography, climate, and landscape 21 | Modern potato production 25 | Environmental and health costs of modern agriculture 35 | Integrated tradeoffs analysis: in search of "win-win" scenarios 43 | Conclusions 46 | CHAPTER 3: HISTORY OF AGRARIAN DEVELOPMENT IN CARCHI 47 | Introduction 47 | Pre-Colombian Carchi 47 | Spanish settlement and the encomienda 53 | Hacienda system 56 | Agrarian reform 61 | Conclusions 68 | CHAPTER 4: AGRICULTURAL MODERNISATION IN FOUR COMMUNITIES 71 | Introduction 71 | "Constructive justice" of agrarian reform 72 | Arrival of technical assistance 75 | Carchi: model of modern agriculture 77 | Agrarian development in four villages 78 | Discussion 117 | Conclusions 125 | CHAPTER 5: CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS 127 | Summary 127 | Introduction 127 | Setting the scene: EcoSalud 128 | Moments of divergence 130 | Discussion 139 | Conclusions 146 | CHAPTER 6: FARMER FIELD SCHOOLS IN THE SOCIAL WILD 147 | Summary 147 | Introduction 147 | Conceptual matters 148 | Farmer Field Schools as a locus for radical change 152 | FFS in Carchi 155 | Learning from FFS in the social wild 172 | Conclusions 184 | CHAPTER 7: DYNAMICS OF PERPETUATION 187 | Summary 187 | Introduction 187 | Critical events 191 | Truth and consequences 197 | Rise of dissent 210 | Modes of enactment: determining technology in Carchi 217 | Conclusions 227 | CHAPTER 8: LEARNING FROM CARCHI 229 | Introduction 229 | Findings 229 | Looking deeper 236 | APPENDIX A: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE CIP-LED RESEARCH IN CARCHI, ECUADOR 247 |
Resumen / Abstract :	Provided its natural endowments, generally educated rural population, infrastructure and market access to two countries, the Province of Carchi, located in the northernmost highlands of Ecuador, is potentially one of the most productive agriculture regions in the Andes. In the 1960s development experts and the government targeted the region as a model for agricultural modernization. Following land reform and rapid organization around industrial era technologies, potato farming in Carchi boomed during the 1970s, evolving to dominate the landscape and become the major source of livelihoods in the province. By the early 1980s, Carchi came to produce nearly half the national potato harvest on less than a quarter of the country’s area dedicated to the crop. In the early1990s, however, production and productivity began to fall off, leading a growing number of rural families in Carchi to fall into debt and abandon potato farming. The research reported here is the outcome of the author’s ten years of research and development practice in Carchi with the International Potato Center, the FAO’s Global IPM Facility, and World Neighbors. It reflects unfolding experience with different phases of hope, discovery, and ambition. Many aspects of the experience have been published elsewhere (see Appendix A). The resulting dissertation is not a case study in the sense of a case that tests a hypothesis. It is a monograph that attempts to produce a single coherent story over seemingly unrelated events, focusing on a second-generation problem: despite a decade of highly rigorous, scientific research on the pathologies of Carchi and multiple public demonstrations of feasible alternatives, little significant change was achieved.
Copyright:	openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Ecuador
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10469/23327
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