Access to land and socio-productive organisation, compared research in the upper coast of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
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Abstract
The study communities have faced a phase of establishment and rating of the productive space. They have privileged the construction of the life space and motor the communitarian organization as of the expression of its interests. They have redefined the productive system, and established a strategy based on the transition to the organic coffee and the productive diversification. They make commercialization processes combining the coffee export in shared in common markets, with the traditional commercialization to the regional market and in spaces of proximity. They are experiencing important changes in the relations of sort and the outstanding paper of the woman in the communitarian life. Still they have many challenges and deficiencies that to surpass in diverse social and productive aspects and lack immediate possibilities to cover the commitments with the debt acquired by the acquisition of land.
Basic elements of these advances are the combined communitarian work with the management of external supports. Between the last cooperation of European Union it has been important but it has shown deficiencies. The action of the State to support these processes of agrarian change and micro regional development has been very poor. Still it is not generated excessive economic like maintaining by themselves, processes of accumulation of capital from its productive systems.