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The aim of this article is to analyse how, during the period of 1937 to 1961, different Mexican governments used the cultural and ancestral dimension of maize, overcoming the controversies around its nutritional quality and utilising the benefits of agricultural research, to incentivise its production and consumption among the population, as well as its exportation to other countries, with the goal of turning it into a commodity that would incorporate the rural population into the national economy. For this reason, it was important to design campaigns to promote this grain in various media, seeking to exalt the idea of the ancestral food that was the basis of the Mexican diet and a symbol of Mexican culture. This analysis was constructed using contemporary newspapers and other publications of the period mentioned, as well as works that have addressed the topic of maize cultivation and consumption. The article seeks to deepen our understanding of the changes in the Mexican diet, the practices of production, and the sociocultural significance of maize as from the mid-twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Secuencia: Revista de Historia y Ciencias Sociales is the property of Instituto de Investigaciones - Dr. Jose M. Luis Mora and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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This article analyzes a series of processes of socio-territorial transformation that have taken place around the Páramo de Chingaza, one of the largest protected areas in Colombia. Based on a historical reconstruction and the ethnographic data obtained in the field work in the area, the different ways of conceiving and relating to space are analyzed by the social actors that converge there, both local residents and institutions. Thus, it is identified that the process of colonization in the area, at the beginning of the 20th century, led to some forms of land tenure structure and production systems, but that when institutional actors entered the framework of a modernizing project around of the urban expansion of Bogotá, new socio-territorial dynamics were generated, transformations in land ownership and productive systems, as well as imaginaries regarding the moor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the work is to analyze the characteristics of the agricultural system of Yahualica de González Gallo, Jalisco and classify the producers according to their activities and strategies. From the analysis of in-depth interviews, with a semi-structured questionnaire of 117 questions, to a sample of 136 key actors, from the CADER register number 10 of 2019; Eleven types of producers were determined, being: 1) traditional survival farmer, 2) with complementary activity, 3) merchant, 4) rancher, 5) merchant rancher, 6) Chilean, 7) enterprising Chilean, 8) returned farmer, 9) retired returnee, 10) innovative and 11) the incipient sustainable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Cuban dairy sector is working to reach higher production yields; however, the milking and preservation segments of the milk continue to be the weakest in the chain, as they determine the quality and safety of the milk. Due to production constraints and penalties for poor quality milk, dairy farmers are significantly affected, both productively and economically. Due to the productive limitations and the penalties for the poor quality of the milk, the dairy farmers are significantly affected, both productively and economically. In this regard, a panel of experts conducted a semi-structured survey at 100% of the dairy farmers in the municipality of Jagüey Grande. The aspects evaluated were the location of the farm, its organizational and productive characteristics, the personal data and experience of each interviewee, as well as the knowledge of the current conditions of milk handling from milking to its delivery to the refrigerated collection center. In this way, the farmers themselves identified the difficulties affecting the handling of the milk and the aspects affecting its quality. The main limitations affecting the quality of the milk obtained were the inadequate conditions for milking, the limited quality of animal feed, the incorrect milking routine, the poor conservation of the milk on the farm, and the long distances in the transport, among others. It is concluded that there is a low perception, on the part of producers, of the fundamental aspects that limit them to reach better milk quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Athenian peasant, as an historical subject and, also, as a character of Aristophanes comic theater, was a central figure during the V century b. C., as their ethic and social position remained intact and optimal against the Athens warlike sufferings. Due to these reasons, the character was idealized both in position of a citizen and in personifications of the aristophanic comedy. This article analyzes the way in which Aristophanes set in the rural man the ethical and political ideal subject needed by the Athenian polis to be reconstructed and transformed. Aristophanes' perception of the peasant provides a connection with the events, both the citizen and the city, and a different reading of the events suffered by Athens during the Peloponesian war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Colombia, Agrarian Reform Public Policy, issued in 1994, considered among its objectives, reform the agrarian social structure, and give land to beneficiaries, such as farmers, indigenous and afro–descendants groups, displaced people, and farming reserved zones population. However, during public policy implementation, between 1994 and 2010, increased the concentration of rural property. For public policy analysis, the model proposed by Knoepfel, Larrue and Varone was used. Also, qualitative social methodology and non–probability with convenience sampling, and avalanche process were used. In general, beneficiaries groups were lower compared to the outputs expected with public policy implementation, due to flaws in the selection of beneficiaries, budgetary reduction, lack of State support, influence of the armed conflict, among others. This problem prevents assuring a truly rural development in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An abstract of the article "Melic (+960), Presbyter, Farmer and Rancher: Personal Details and Conjectures," by Blas Casado Quintanilla is presented.

In the work you offer the necessary information to carry out the advice service to the irrigation and it is based on the technological capacities installed at the moment in the Institutes of Meteorology and Irrigation and Drainage Research Institutes. It is developed in three stages: during the first stage meteorological information corresponding to periods of ten days, the second stage for periods of five days will be used and the third will provide daily information. In Cuba it is sought to lend this type of service adapted to our conditions, therefore, all the concerning one to: programming of the irrigation, optimization of the design, the popularization of the information, the training of technicians and irrigation farmers are queries among other that should be cleared in investigation projects that are executed for their later implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study on knowledge exchange among farmer experimenters who are members of the Unión de Pequeños y Medianos Productores Agropecuarios de Puriscal. The study focuses on the social networks in which they are involved at the local and regional levels. It addresses the internal and external factors that foster or hinder production and circulation of new technological knowledge by men and women farmers in three areas within the district. It also discusses the strengths and weaknesses of informal experiments, the role of local kinship networks and interactions among neighbors, and other types of formal and informal networks at the regional level. Finally, it makes a number of suggestions or recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]