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Contemporary peasants assume increasing participation in management initiatives and in rural development actions. At the same time, they maintain resistance practices to the concentrated capital expansion as forms of consolidated their persistence. In marginal lands or in lands of precarious tenure of Argentina, and in recent contexts of strengthening of productive organizations and of renewed rurality, they generate proposals from the basis of the territory and demands for the mobilization of resources. The rural polices channelizes resources as a partial response to those demands. In the empirical approach, two experiences of participatory management in rural development are analyzed in a Patagonian province, specifically among the State, the producers` organizations and the indigenous communities. The results lead to reflect over the social character of public policies and on their participatory character: as real forms of co-management or as a disciplining mechanism.

We analyze social, cultural and environmental elements that are usually left behind in foresight exercises for the agricultural sector, when done at a national level and in terms of competitiveness, productivity and technological innovation for the agri-food system. We discuss that foresight approaches at large geographical scales, using the aforementioned criteria and tending to insert producers into conventional markets, constitute an impediment for the inclusion of small farmers into development. Small-scale farmers lack the access to information and the social capital in order to participate effectively into commodity chains promoted by agricultural policies and programs that favor the development of agro-industry. We argue that, for achieving inclusion of different scales of farmers, as well as to strengthen local economies, foresight exercises should also be carried out at local levels, considering the possibilities and assets of people and of their productive environment. This should be accompanied by promoting access to easily adoptable technologies that eliminate dependence and help develop local entrepeneurship, with alternative markets as options for their produce and products. This would add to large scale foresight excercises, amplifying its impacts and possibilities.

The major strawberry-producing countries are United States of America, Turkey, Spain, Egypt, Korea and Mexico The total production of Strawberry in Mexico in the year 2011 was 228,899.59 tons, the major producing States are Michoacán, Baja California and Guanajuato, which contributed the 92.51 percent of the total national production. The objective of the study was to analyze competitiveness in international trade of strawberry of Mexico. Indicators of competitiveness in the international market for the period 1994-2010 were calculated. Analyzed indicators were the relative trade balance (RTB), the tradability indicator (Tij) and the coefficient of trade dependency (GIij). The RTB for Mexico in the period fluctuates between 0.5 and 0.86, reflecting increased export capacity of the crop and the presence of comparative advantage, the tradability indicator fluctuates between 0.80 and 3.76, to be greater than zero, the sector is considered exporter and indicates that it is a competitive product. The strawberry crop is competitive at domestic and international level.

This essay aims to analyze the idea of ritual and politics implicated in one of the collective actions carried out recently by the affected communities in the region of Atenco to resist to illegal land sales, both the incursions of the State and contractors currently working in the New International Airport of Mexico City (NIAMC), who are invading their territory. To resist, they improved the solar ceremony or Cenit, held the second week of May on the hill of Tepetzinco, located in the community of Nexquipayac, in the municipality of Atenco. The ceremony will be analyzed as a political act of resistance, related with the idea of ritual, that is part of the new repertoire of confrontation that affected communities have instrumentalized against NAICM, and imbricates the recovery of pre-conquest traditions, with the evocation of figures such as land, water and territory.

The theme of the Cultural Missions concerning to educational topic, is one of the microhistory bastions of Santiago Yolomécatl, Oaxaca. Santiago Augusto Sierra, in his book The Cultural Missions, SEP Seventies collection, mentions that in 1924, during the government of President Álvaro Obregón, and Jose Vasconcelos as head of the newly created Ministry of Public Education, start the creation of the “Cultural Missions”, one of them came to Santiago Yolomécatl, so we can say that the community Yolomécatl, is the cradle of education postrevolutionary Mexico with Vasconcelista project literacy, teaching arts and trades to the people of Mexico through the Cultural Missions. The article focuses precisely the relevance of the Cultural Missions in the Oaxacan Mixteca, emphasizing the installed in Santiago Yolomécatl, Oaxaca in 1925. For shaping the information and statements contained, turned to oral history, recovered through numerous interviews with key informants in the community. On the other hand, was a research on rescue of old photography as a means to retrieve valuable information from the time it is addressed. Several photographs denote how was this process of Cultural Missions in the Oaxacan Mixteca.

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