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This article explores how agro‐technical development works to change Mopan Maya relations with the natural world through a case study of the emergent fungus Monilia in the Belizean cacao industry. I show how technical development projects generate the environmental conditions that allow detrimental diseases like Monilia to become widespread, while subsequent efforts to mitigate the resultant epidemic serve as powerful vehicles for the further perpetuation of Western scientific agriculture. I argue that these interventions transform indigenous environmental paradigms from relational to mononatural, organized around human mastery over a singular, objective environment.

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