Abstract
An explanation of the stagnation in agricultural production relative to effective demand and of the widespread malnutrition and hunger in the countries bordering the Caribbean is provided, using the basic categories of political economy. The authors show that the disappearance of peasants as a class of producers and their reduction to the role of a semiproletarian labour reserve explains the crisis in many food crops as well as extensive rural poverty. They also show that the dynamism of capitalist agriculture is often biased against wage-foods as a result of cheap food policies and directed instead toward the production of exportables, inputs for industry and luxury foods.
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