Small farming and radical imaginations in the Caribbean today

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2357016
AutoresTony Weis (University of Western Ontario)
Año2007
Volumen49
Número2
Páginas112-117
Fecha de publicación2007-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRace & Class (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0306-3968 • E-ISSN: 1741-3125
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/03063968070490020607
OpenAlexW2060429054
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas1

Forged and still scarred by slavery, Caribbean agricultural landscapes are now being made redundant in an era of global market integration. The demise of preferential trade agreements is exposing the uncompetitiveness of the plantation sector while small farmers, still largely confined to marginal positions within highly inequitable landscapes, are being pushed into a new vulnerability by market integration, as rising food imports flood local markets. Unfortunately, political attention continues to revolve around the ailing plantation sector. In contrast, it is argued here that the current crisis of Caribbean agriculture contains a historic opportunity for restructuring in the interests of the region's small farmers and that, in the process, the sector could be helped to gain a new vitality

Agriculture · Demise · Development economics · Economics · Flood myth · Geography · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Vitality · Caribbean history, culture, and politics