Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-28-2009
Publication Title
Latin American Perspectives
Volume
36
Abstract
In recent years, economic crisis in the sugar industry and the closure of an important sugar mill in Michoacán, Mexico, have fostered the entry of transnational agribusinesses that contract with local growers for blackberry production. Land concentration is under way as wealthy growers rent ejido (agrarian-reform) land to grow berries and small-scale growers shift to less capitalized berry production or migrate out of the region. An analysis of the impact of this transition, part of the globalization of the agro-food system, on campesinos, workers, and their communities reveals that a general improvement in the economy has been accompanied by increased inequality, concentration of land ownership, and out-migration, a division of labor by gender that is detrimental to women, and damage to human health and the environment due to increased use of pesticides.
Issue
3
First Page
79
Last Page
92
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0094582X09334158
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Chollett, Donna, "From Sugar to Blackberries: Restructuring Agro-export Production in Michoacán, Mexico" (2009). Anthropology Publications. 6.
https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/anthropology/6
Primo Type
Article
Included in
Agricultural and Resource Economics Commons, Labor Economics Commons, Latin American Studies Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons
Comments
This is an Accepted Version of the article published in Latin American Perspectives. The final published version can be found on the publisher's website. The citation for the published version is:
Chollett, Donna. 2009. From Sugar to Blackberries: Restructuring Agro-export Production in Michoacán, Mexico. Latin American Perspectives 36(3):79-92. DOI 10.1177/0094582X09334158.