Land Tenure and Production Relationships. Unavoidable Dimensions in the Peasant Resilience (Town of Marulanda, Caldas-Colombia)

Abstract

This research aims to show the need to consider aspects related to the interrelation between the agricultural structure, the production relationships and the agency capability, which implies an analysis of resilience, understood as being able to change, learn and transform oneself at different extents. In order to evaluate how pertinent is to consider these aspects, a case study was conducted on agroecosystems in the town of Marulanda (Caldas Province, Colombia). This work found that the agroecosystems are resilient after an analysis from the peasant’s viewpoint, although this resilience was reduced due to the semi-feudal production relationships kept in the region that appear in the form of land concentration, serfdom, and bossism.