EN BUSCA DEL CULTIVO PROMETIDO: LAS REPERCUSIONES SOCIALES POR LA INTRODUCCIÓN DE NUEVOS CULTIVOS

Abstract

This article accounts for the various economic alternatives that the people of the community of Tejería, in Pantepec, Puebla, have chosen in order to obtain greater economic income and thereby “improve” their “living standards”. To achieve that, they have opted to displace traditional mesoamerican crops (such as maize and beans) that apparently keep the population in economic marginality. This is not without consequences, because –as it will be shown– they have consciously or unconsciously disclaimed their food sovereignty; with the insertion of increasingly commercial crops into their own productive dynamics, the complex networks of reciprocities that maintain economic and social relations in the community have been weakened; therefore causing a conjuncture in the socio-environmental relations that – with the instruction of bamboo and in the light of the recorded events, shows an ecological and social devastation.