Resumo

VASQUEZ AGUSTIN, Sabás; VIZCARRA BORDI, Ivonne; QUINTANAR GUADARRAMA, Eduardo  e  LUTZ BACHERE, Bruno. Heterogeneidad en las prácticas agrarias como estrategia de adaptación a los procesos globales. Caso de Santa Cruz (Chilapa, Guerrero, México). Convergencia [online]. 2009, vol.16, n.50, pp.79-106. ISSN 2448-5799.

This study case is based on the community of Santa Cruz, municipality of Chilapa, from the State of Guerrero, Mexico. The data obtained from interviews, local groups of discussion and participant observation, allowed us to learn the heterogeneity of agrarian practices, processes of change and the established relationships among the social actors, as well as their relationship with natural resources; in the framework of modernity and their incidence on social strategies of rural reproduction. In the diversification of the agrarian practices, where those culturally appropriated to assure the subsistence and the modern that look for the local development are combined, one finds the cultivations of maize and tomato, and cattle, mats and mescal production, practices that have strengthened networks that enable social cohesion.

Palavras-chave : agrarian practices; peasant strategies; local actors.