Economía campesina y sustitución voluntaria de cultivos de uso ilícito, municipio de Briceño (Antioquia)

Abstract

The armed conflict, the crisis of the agrarian model and the expansion of illicit crops in Colombia has produced a reconfiguration of the territory, reflected in the peasant economy and the transformation of productive practices in rural areas. Such is the case of the town of Pueblo Nuevo, municipality of Briceño (Antioquia), which suffered the expansion of the armed conflict scenarios that affected its peasant economy, displaced in the search for an activity that guaranteed a minimum of wealth, undergoing transformations violent in economic, social and cultural relations.   In this sense, the research sought to understand how the peasant economy has developed within the framework of the Havana Peace Agreement, specifically the process of substitution of crops for illicit use in Pueblo Nuevo and its relationship with the social construction of the territory in the period 2016-2019. This was approached from the peasant economy and deepened the main Latin American interpretative categories where their evolution, permanence and configuration of particular rural contexts are shown, which link illicit crops as an alternative to traditional productive processes. This context, the persistence of traditional production systems in the contemporary world is recognized as an alternative for the reconfiguration of rural territories, the search for peace, and the collective affirmation of peasants in Pueblo Nuevo as subjects with deep roots in their territory. and forms of production, as with memory processes as a consequence of experiencing the conflict.