| Titre | Des paysanneries minoritaires | |
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| Auteur | Olivier Dollfus | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 81-82, 1981 Paysans de l'Amérique des Cordillères | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Paysans de l'amérique des cordillères |
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| Page | 5-24 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Peasantries as Minorities.
Peasants are a minority in the population of the Andes and their economic weight is even smaller than their demographic importance. This new situation is a consequence of the extremely rapid urban growth which has been taking place in the last decades.
These different peasantries have had a largely common history since the Spanish conquest. Most of the people concerned live in the torrid zone and in mountains that are cultivated up to above 4 000 m.
The contrast between the great landowners and the minifundio which have marked the agricultural history of the last centuries is still very important, but new problems are now arising. Following agricultural reforms, average farms, well integrated into the market, have reinforced their role, and at the same time, poorer peasants have had to look for other jobs, which was made difficult by the state of the labour market.
Efforts are now being made to maintain peasants in the country, using the rebirth of an ethnic feeling which was long opposed and weakened, but they seem to have little chance of success in societies where the growth of urbanization is irrevocable. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1981_num_81_1_2650 |
