The free agro-alimentary commerce and the agro-exporter model: an alliance against peasantry

Abstract

One of the foundations of the neoliberal model is the conviction that the best stimulus for the development of countries exist in economic opening and commercial liberalization. A strategy that, in one form or another is imposed to the underdeveloped world by the rich countries and the international business and economico-financial organisms, and that depict high human, social, economic and environmental costs for the impoverished nations. Drawing on free commerce and the economic globalization advancing on planetary scale, big transnational agro-alimentary companies look not only for cheap food and permissive environmental legislation in any part of the world, but also they foment the agro-exporter models and look for its suppliers between the bigger producers, that are able to provide large amounts of cheap products, standardized and in a minimum time. For the same reason they marginalize the small producer, as well the familiar as the peasant farmer, that sink into poverty, even though they develop sustainable productive systems, respecting the biological cycles and the surroundings that are crucial for the rural communities that lodge them.