Abstract

PARRAL QUINTERO, Luis Enrique. Sugarcane Producer Organizations and their Power Relations: the Case of the Casasano Local Sugarcane Farmers Association in Cuautla de Morelos, Mexico. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2014, vol.9, n.18, pp.81-90. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2014.18.24.

Sugarcane cultivation is part of an agricultural tradition established during the colonial period. During that time, sugarcane production was organized by large land holdings known as haciendas. This has changed. With the revolutionary movement, this landed estate structure crumbled and rural areas experienced the emergence of new communal landholders, known as ejidatarios. At the same time, laws aimed at protecting industrial complexes were decreed enabling the communal landholders adjacent to sugar refineries to continue with production. Within this scenario, it is important to analyze the way in which producers have been articulating as well as the power relationships generated through this process via the intervention of local producer associations.

Keywords : Sugarcane producers; producer associations; contract farming; power relationships.