Nicaragua's experience in the agricultural sector between 1979 and 1987 shows using planning to achieve state centered accumulation is inappropriate for peripheral nations in transition. Peasant-based strategies, which make a greater use of decentralised market mechanisms are necessary. But...

This article discusses the struggle for land in the State of Acre in the Brazilian Amazon. It argues that the outcome of similar struggles depends upon a combination of economic, political and socio-ecological factors that vary through time and space

The causal complexities and rationality of high-grading are examined in the small-scale antimony mines of the Jukumani indians of Northern Potosi, Bolivia. Taxes and piece rate systems of payment provide incentives for selected removal of ore. The effect of piece rate work on high-grading and...