La Regulación Empresarial en la Producción de Alimentos. Impactos En la Vida Campesina

This publication analyzes one type of peasant deterritorialization strategy through the imposition of a specific type of norms and standards. In the search for strategies for the deterritorialization of peasants, the agrifood industry, together with governments and international organizations such as the FAO, the World Trade Organization and the World Health Organization, have worked on the development of a legal corpus on sanitary and phytosanitary and food safety issues, with standards that are unattainable for peasants. Although these standards do not ensure the quality of agricultural and livestock production or food safety (in fact, they can produce counterproductive results in terms of health and sanitation), they are the ones that ensure the dominance of industrial production; a standardized, large-scale production based on the application of new technologies (use of antibiotics, transgenic seeds, agricultural nanotechnology), which are totally incompatible with peasant production.