The Role and Limitations of Peasant Co-operatives in Rural Jamaica: The Cask of the St. Mary Rural Development Project

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Rural Jamaica possesses persistently high levels of poverty as numerous barriers frustrate the viability of peasant agriculture. This paper examines the acute vulnerability of the peasantry according to three types of constraints—production limitations, marketing linkages and the nature of market demand—and presents a hopeful case of a peasant cooperative struggling to overcome these obstacles. This co-operative provides both an instructive example of how peasants can begin to empower themselves and overcome some of the traditional obstacles facing their sector, and a foreboding example of how international food networks ultimately constrain such progress.

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