Abstract
ABSTRACTIn response to neoliberal food and agriculture policy, peasant movements fought for increased state support of the small-farm sector. Vía Campesina now proposes agroecology and localized trade as environmental solutions to the current climate crisis by advocating for the ‘peasant way.’ This discourse is problematic because peasant farmers are not inherently supportive of local, sustainable food. Drawing on ethnographic field research with indigenous peasant communities in the rural highlands of Ecuador, this article illustrates how existing peasants practice chemical-intensive, monocrop, and export-oriented production. In using peasant as an ideal type rather than an historical ethno-class, post-development scholars essentialize peasant agriculture.
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