No hay ganancia en la milpa: the agrarian question, food sovereignty, and the on-farm conservation of agrobiodiversity in the Guatemalan highlands

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Life in a shrimp zone: aqua- and other cultures of Bangladesh's coastal landscape (2014, background): “In this way, a political ecology of food sovereignty recognizes that the ability of a community to define its own agricultural systems is accompanied by benefits thatmay be illegible outside of farmer-based production systems (Boyce 1996; Altieri 1998; Escobar 1999; Isakson 2009).”
Resistance strategies and diversification of rural livelihoods: the construction of autonomy among Brazilian family farmers (2010, background): “These strategies strengthen a ‘postproductivist’, territorialised, and endogenous development path by reconnecting production and consumption and embedding them in their socio-cultural context (Ploeg 2010, Isakson 2009, Ray 2006, Sonino and Marsden 2006, Winter 2003).”
Explaining the 'hungry farmer paradox': Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua's corn and coffee markets (2014, background): “The regression analysis confirms the importance of the corn and bean fields, which Mesoamerican farmers have managed in their milpa production systems for thousands of years (Isakson, 2009).”