TY - JOUR AU - Herrera Rojas, Gilberto PY - 1996/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Apertura económica- seguridad alimentaria y economía campesina JF - Agronomía Colombiana JA - Agron. Colomb. VL - 13 IS - 1 SE - DO - UR - https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/agrocol/article/view/21467 SP - 63-75 AB - Agricultural importation whithout restriction which come with international free market,especially com and kidney beans, durig the second semester of 1995, affecting strongly and negatively the colombian growres, especially the peasants. Some studies made in Guanentine Santander's province, show that the small farmers lot significant in kidney beans harvest during the second semester, last year. Grower's prices decreased around 60% of the historie prices, because of kidney beans importation from Canada, China, USA,<br />Ecuador and Perú (without considering ilegal importation from Ecuador and Venezuela). Colombian growers are too far the compete with international prices which were around US$ 0,40 - 0,60 per Kg. While the production cost was US$ 0,80 per Kg, These harvet impovered thousands of santandereans<br />peasantraies, some of them migrated to the Atlantic coast cities. Corn importations last year were duplicated and the prices which National growers received, dropped down around one trird. In 1996 corn prices rose up in response of coyuntural factors of short and medium time in the United States and China. Trend of international market granes is that biggest growers will break the producction of countries like ours, which will depend more time on importations. Colombia is too far from competing with corn productivity, production cost's and prices with Canada, USA, and Argentina. Dileme is both crops are crucial part of peasantry food security and country it self.<br /> ER -