No todo es dulce cuando se habla de azúcar. efectos del monocultivo de caña de azúcar en las prácticas agrícolas tradicionales: el caso del corregimiento de La Palmera (Tuluá, Valle Del Cauca)

Abstract

The attempts to industrialize the field in the 20th century in Latin America are linked to the development discourse. In Colombia, an example of this is the monoculture of sugar cane, its presence in the territories transformed the realities of the communities. This work sought to understand the relationship between the presence of sugarcane and the transformations of traditional agricultural practices in La Palmera (Tuluá, Valle del Cauca). From the perspective of colonial inflection, this process is understood as a historical product linked to colonization and coloniality, which enables the permanence of power relations based on colonial hierarchies. In this way, it was evident that said monoculture brought social and environmental effects, such as the lack of employment and the reduction of small crops, which inevitably affected the changes in these practices.