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Why do governments mistreat peasants? — The consequences of dumb policies (even in the United States) 0

Activist Gustavo Esteva wrote about short-sighted Mexican agricultural policy and its effect on the United States China and Mexico both seem to have created dislocation problems for themselves with peasant-slighting policies.  These difficulties result from misapplying urbanized thinking to landscapes where they don’t yet belong. Mexican activist Gustavo Esteva had this to say yesterday about [...]