I am harping here in the more usual sense, not in the musical sense which would come first to mind with my harper friends. Nigh's institutional affiliation is Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social del Sureste, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Instead of summarizing, I will give some quotes. My view has moved from . . . This . . . has permitted the freeing up of lands, many of which should never have been converted. . . .
Production is achieved by substitution of . . .
Some of these were managed intensively in the past. Organic methods, along with a holistic approach to resource planning and marketing and a respect for traditional knowledge provide a viable strategy for the design of sustainable production systems in tropical regions. Contemporary culture IS agriculture. Been that way for a long time. The challenge in Chiapas and elsewhere is not just political, economic and social.