Abstract

MUNERA, José Roberto Álvarez  and  PINA, Juan Carlos Barreto. Environmental and Political Disjunctives of the Farmers Potato Producers from the Cortadera Moorland Located in Boyacá-Colombia. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.37, pp.321-334. ISSN 1519-549X.

This article describes the political position of a rural community located in the Cortadera páramo (Boyacá, Colombia), understood in the explanations attributed to the practices related to the use of natural resources that allows the configuration of rural properties where they do the work agriculture, especially potato crops (solanum tuberosum) type Tuquerreña, with a regional and national market to maintain production. The study uses ethnographic methodology with participant observation and semi-structured interviews to understand the practices developed by peasants since the middle of the 20th century, in a sociohistorical context of potato cultivation in the central province of Boyacá, within the framework of policies that seek the preservation of equatorial high mountain ecosystems - páramo - and the pressure of the free market to create conditions of competitiveness.

Keywords : Potato; Peasants; Central Province of Boyacá; Agricultural Works; Páramo Ecosystems.

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