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Feeding The Market: South American Farmers, Trade And Globalization.

Feeding The Market: South American Farmers, Trade And Globalization.

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The debate about the pros and cons of globalization and the changes in policies and markets that are needed has become increasingly polarized between "globaphiles" and "globaphobes". The voices of the rural poor, particularly smallholder farmers, seldom figure in these debates. This book fills this void. Based on extensive fieldwork from the sweeping grasslands of Patagonia to the coca fields of lowland Bolivia, and on to the dense array of smallholder coffee farms in Ecuador, the authors demonstrate clearly that the vast majority of smallholder farmers wish to continue participating in local, national and international markets. By focusing on eight different land uses - including coffee, potatoes, coca, wine, sheep farming, forestry and the lesser known Andean grain, quinoa - the impact of global markets upon smallholder farmers is richly described. The authors clearly illustrate the practical obstacles that smallholder farmers face in accessing markets especially with respect to the difficulties of meeting market demands for quality of produce along with quantity and continuity of supply. They draw lessons from both the success stories and farmers' frustrated attempts to benefit from market opportunities, and suggest changes in policy, research and extension agendas which are needed to ensure that markets work better for farmers world-wide. By telling the farmers' stories, this book is a major contribution to establishing some fixed points of research from which to take the globalization debate forward more productively.

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