TY - JOUR
T1 - Entanglements of agrobiodiversity-food amid cascading migration, coca conflicts, and water development (Bolivia, 1990–2013)
AU - Zimmerer, Karl S.
AU - Rojas Vaca, Hector Luís
AU - Hosse Sahonero, María Teresa
N1 - Funding Information:
Helpful comments were provided by reviewers, colleagues, and the editor. Our long-term field research owes to the support of several communities and municipalities in Cochabamba as well as remarkable NGOs and other organizations that include CENDA, CIPCA, CIDRE, CERES, ARLL, UMSS, and AGRUCO. Partners in field research included Gonzalo Muñoz, Julia Román, Xenobio Siles, Rossmery Tocaraya, Jorge Centellas, Medora Ebersole, and Delfín Álvarez. Insightful conversations and support were provided by Kevin Healy, Susan Paulson, Pablo Regalsky, Gonzalo Ávila, Ximena Cádema, Roberto Laserna, Rosario León, Tom Perreault, Wendy Wolford, Milan Liu, and Karan Misquitta. This study was presented to the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University. Financial support was provided by the Social Science Research Council and the National Science Foundation (Grant BC 0240962; University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991-1993; Grant HSD 0948816; Pennsylvania State University, 2008-2013)
Funding Information:
Helpful comments were provided by reviewers, colleagues, and the editor. Our long-term field research owes to the support of several communities and municipalities in Cochabamba as well as remarkable NGOs and other organizations that include CENDA, CIPCA, CIDRE, CERES, ARLL, UMSS, and AGRUCO. Partners in field research included Gonzalo Mu?oz, Julia Rom?n, Xenobio Siles, Rossmery Tocaraya, Jorge Centellas, Medora Ebersole, and Delf?n ?lvarez. Insightful conversations and support were provided by Kevin Healy, Susan Paulson, Pablo Regalsky, Gonzalo ?vila, Ximena C?dema, Roberto Laserna, Rosario Le?n, Tom Perreault, Wendy Wolford, Milan Liu, and Karan Misquitta. This study was presented to the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University. Financial support was provided by the Social Science Research Council and the National Science Foundation (Grant BC 0240962; University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991-1993; Grant HSD 0948816; Pennsylvania State University, 2008-2013)
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This study examines agrobiodiversity production and consumption among indigenous people and smallholders engaged with cascading migration, coca, and water resource changes. Addressing the questions if and how agrobiodiversity is viable amid intensifying extra-local influences, it combines the theorization of a pathway that has emerged via infrastructure entanglements and the extended case study of local utilization practices. The theoretical orientation integrates key elements of political ecology and social-ecological systems. We undertook surveys, interviews, and ethnographic participant observation in 10 communities and villages of Cochabamba, Bolivia, between 1990 and 2013. Results show how agrobiodiversity was utilized at moderate-high levels in the land and water systems, foods, and other uses of indigenous peasants and smallholder farmers in the 1990–2013 period even as certain minor crops were significantly reduced. Moreover, the results reveal how agrobiodiversity and agrobiodiverse foods have functioned in production and consumption amid the infrastructure entanglements of migration, roads, and irrigation. Embeddedness as both quotidian resource capacities and contingent sociocultural symbols was hinged to agrarian change in these accelerated entanglements. Mobilities of both meaning and people in recent infrastructure entanglement is characteristic of the unfolding utilization of agrobiodiversity and agrobiodiverse foods. Social power in the complex contours of accelerated entanglement have furnished meanings ranging from the resistance politics of indigenous people and smallholders to the purposeful agendas of more powerful groups. The conclusion highlights how dynamic agrobiodiversity utilization has emerged via the pathway of indigenous people and smallholders who are engaged in cascading, extra-local entanglements.
AB - This study examines agrobiodiversity production and consumption among indigenous people and smallholders engaged with cascading migration, coca, and water resource changes. Addressing the questions if and how agrobiodiversity is viable amid intensifying extra-local influences, it combines the theorization of a pathway that has emerged via infrastructure entanglements and the extended case study of local utilization practices. The theoretical orientation integrates key elements of political ecology and social-ecological systems. We undertook surveys, interviews, and ethnographic participant observation in 10 communities and villages of Cochabamba, Bolivia, between 1990 and 2013. Results show how agrobiodiversity was utilized at moderate-high levels in the land and water systems, foods, and other uses of indigenous peasants and smallholder farmers in the 1990–2013 period even as certain minor crops were significantly reduced. Moreover, the results reveal how agrobiodiversity and agrobiodiverse foods have functioned in production and consumption amid the infrastructure entanglements of migration, roads, and irrigation. Embeddedness as both quotidian resource capacities and contingent sociocultural symbols was hinged to agrarian change in these accelerated entanglements. Mobilities of both meaning and people in recent infrastructure entanglement is characteristic of the unfolding utilization of agrobiodiversity and agrobiodiverse foods. Social power in the complex contours of accelerated entanglement have furnished meanings ranging from the resistance politics of indigenous people and smallholders to the purposeful agendas of more powerful groups. The conclusion highlights how dynamic agrobiodiversity utilization has emerged via the pathway of indigenous people and smallholders who are engaged in cascading, extra-local entanglements.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.01.028
DO - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.01.028
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100749894
JO - Geoforum
JF - Geoforum
SN - 0016-7185
ER -