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The author challenges the image of peasants as passive victims and argues that coffee growers in the Bugisu District of Uganda, because they own land and may choose which crops to produce, maintain an unusual degree of economic and political independence. Focusing on peasant struggles for market control over coffee exports in Bugisu from colonial times through the reign and overthrow of Idi Amin, the author shows that these freeholding peasants acted collectively and used the state's dependence on coffee export revenues to effectively influence and veto government programs inimical to their interests. (DÜI-Hff)

An exploration of the link between coffee agriculture & state structures in Guatemala focuses on the environmental degradation that has resulted from class struggles over land & labor. The state focus on political, rather than economic, uses of land has forced the rural population to depend on insufficient marginal land & prevented integrated management of the environment. It is contended that the state must deny access to natural resources to powerful claimants like oil companies, miners, loggers, & tourist agents. The environmental crisis is described as a direct result of "conflicts between capitalist & laboring classes" & how the state used access to land to mediate these conflicts. It is argued that "patchwork" solutions cannot work because the state's commitment to them is conditional. Environmental policy must instead be based on a conception of the sate as steward. Suggestions are made for ways to reshape coffee agriculture to break state patterns, allow more equitable access to land/markets, & treat land/resources as part of a national legacy. 23 References. J. Lindroth

An exploration of the link between coffee agriculture & state structures in Guatemala focuses on the environmental degradation that has resulted from class struggles over land & labor. The state focus on political, rather than economic, uses of land has forced the rural population to depend on insufficient marginal land & prevented integrated management of the environment. It is contended that the state must deny access to natural resources to powerful claimants like oil companies, miners, loggers, & tourist agents. The environmental crisis is described as a direct result of "conflicts between capitalist & laboring classes" & how the state used access to land to mediate these conflicts. It is argued that "patchwork" solutions cannot work because the state's commitment to them is conditional. Environmental policy must instead be based on a conception of the sate as steward. Suggestions are made for ways to reshape coffee agriculture to break state patterns, allow more equitable access to land/markets, & treat land/resources as part of a national legacy. 23 References. J. Lindroth

Eine von Verwaltungsdirektoren, die sich um Ökonomie und Ökologie wenig scheren, auf nationaler Ebene konzipierte Entwicklungspolitik führte in der Region von Para zur Zerstörung einer bäuerlichen Ökonomie, "die zwar nur teilweise, aber an entscheidenden Punkten in den nationalen und internationalen Markt integriert war". So ergab sich als unbeabsichtigtes Resultat eine Verringerung des regionalen Exportpotentials und eine "einschneidende Verschlechterung der Einkommenschancen eines wesentlichen Teils der lokalen Bevölkerung". (SK)