Farming establishments or extended families? Territorial misunderstandings in the framework of a program to stimulate quinoa production in northwestern Argentina.
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A case is studied in which, within a global scenario of increasing commodification of the quinoa production market, the application of institutional programmes to strengthen and expand quinoa production in rural Andean communities in north-western Argentina did not achieve the expected results. However, an ethnographic approach to the strategies, conceptions and criteria of land use applied by the families who were the beneficiaries of this programme shows that the failure of these indicators of success, far from expressing the crisis of the peasant systems of this region, reflects non-market criteria of prioritisation of agrarian territories, which become illegible (Scott 1998) for institutional premises, due to the heuristic limitations of the indicators used. On the contrary, it is proposed that these territorial practices, "invisible" to institutional viewpoints, can be read as strategies of silent resistance (Scott 1985) to the advances of food production’s commodification.
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