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标题：NONTRADITIONAL CROPS AND LAND ACCUMULATION AMONG GUATEMALAN SMALLHOLDERS: IS THE IMPACT SUSTAINABLE?
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作者：Calogero, Carletto
期刊名称：Journal of Food Distribution Research
印刷版ISSN：0047-245X
出版年度：2000
期号：SUPPL
出版社：Food Distribution Research Society
摘要：Since the late 1970s dramatic economic changes have taken place in the highlands of Guatemala. The introduction of new export crops, such as snow peas, broccoli, and miniature vegetables, has led to yet another agro-export boom. Unlike earlier booms, however, this one has included all but the smallest farmers. The high rate of smallholder participation in the boom, and the initial high profitability of nontraditional exports (NTXs), fueled initial optimism that NTX produc-tion could increase smallholders' ability to accumulate land and so decrease the highly skewed distribution of land in Guatemala, a country with one of the most unequal landholding patterns in all of Latin America. This paper asks if indeed smallholders, following the adoption of NTXs, have been able to acquire more land on a sustainable basis and if a more equitable land distribution has resulted from this process. The research findings contribute to the debate about the impact of export crop production on smallholder agriculture in the rural Guatemalan highlands in general and, more specifically, on long-term land accumulation patterns.