Movimiento Campesino a Campesino: Linking Sustainable
Agriculture and Social Change      Download in PDF      Ten
years ago I wrote a Development Report for Food First about the
Movimiento Campesino a Campesino (Holt-Gimenez 1996). At that
time little was known about “MCAC” and many development
professionals had high hopes that the farmer-to-farmer methods
for developing sustainable agriculture would help transform
Mesoamerican agriculture. A decade later, we are still hopeful,
but it has become clear that in the face of powerful global
agribusiness interests, the sustainable transformation of
agriculture will require more than farmer-led techniques and
methodologies.      The development of sustainable agriculture
will require significant structural changes, in addition to
technological innovation and farmer-to-farmer solidarity. This
is impossible without social movements that create political
will among decision-makers to dismantle and transform the
institutions and regulations which presently hold back su