The province of Jujuy, located in the north of the current Argentina, presents a wide regional heterogeneity. This led to various forms of land tenure and ownership in their territory. Extant historiography has analyzed this process extensively, although it has not yet focused on a particular region, the Valles Centrales, especially during the second half of the 19th century. In this paper we analyze the complex process of emergence and structuring of a land market and the weight that water rights for irrigation had in the valuation of land.

This article examines the growth of the fruit-canning industry in Chile, from the late-nineteenth century into the first decades of the twentieth century. This process was the result of the initiative of innovative entrepreneurs who, for the most part, did not belong to the business elites or the class of large landowners that dominated Central Chile’s agriculture. These new industrialists developed large-scale production of canned fruit, specialty crops, and legumes through vertical integration and by connecting the emerging fruticulture with a food-producing industrial subsector geared for the domestic market. Unlike those entrepreneurs linked to the export sector, the fruit-canning industrialists invested profits to increase production and modernize their firms. In addition, just like in other sectors, the fruit-canning industry was formed by Chilean and foreign entrepreneurs, who created solid family businesses that, in some cases, were active for several decades.

This article presents the most salient aspects of the land struggles in northern Uruguay between 1959 and 1973. The relevance of this study lies in three aspects. First, the high level of concentration of land ownership in the department of Artigas. Second, the emergence of the Unión de Trabajadores Azucareros de Artigas (UTAA), which claimed access to a large estate of 30,000 hectares. Thirdly, the growing presence that the state began to have in this territory through the Instituto Nacional de Colonización (INC) at the end of the 1960s through the expropriation and purchase of land for colonisation purposes. The results show that sugar cane workers were not included as beneficiaries in the allocation of land.

In 1971, the Swedish director Jan Lindqvist filmed the documentary Agripino in the community of Churo (Cusco, Peru), in which the local peasants denounced in first person the abuses to which they had been subjected by the landlord during the implementation of the agrarian reform. After 50 years, the film returns to the community and, based on this, we decided to make a new film in the same region: Good morning, wiraqocha. What impact did the implementation of the agrarian reform have on the people who lived in this community? Is it possible to jointly build the representation of their memories in a documentary? What methodologies should be used for this new project?

This article seeks to analyse and situate the recent boom in mining activity in the peasant communities of Colquemarca district (Cusco, Peru) as part of a longer history of political empowerment in the southern Andean region of Peru. It identifies a continuity between the land struggles waged by the peasant communities against the hacienda regime in the twentieth century and the current campaigns for access to and usufruct of the subsoil in the communal territories. This continuity stems from the ongoing fight for territorial control against the former local elite and other actors such as the Peruvian State and the large mining companies, which has turned this issue into an axis that articulates local political activity. In that respect, the demands for the right to exploit these territorial resources - which extend, in this case, from the land itself to the minerals of the subsoil - are understood by the families and communal organisations as local forms of contestation and territorial self-determination, as well as expressions of an historic battle for greater autonomy and sovereignty.

The nutritional transition in Chile involved significant changes in diet between 1990 and 2000, in particular the rapid increase in the consumption of meat and dairy as principal sources of protein and calories. This article analyses another key trend: the reduction in apparent legume consumption between 1966 and 2018. The principal results indicate a decline in the apparent consumption per capita of beans, chickpeas and peas, while the consumption of lentils experienced a slight increase. In addition, it is established that the socioeconomic sectors that allocate a greater proportion of their income to legumes are those in the third quintile. The main impacts of these dietary changes on public health are explained and it is argued that the country experienced an unhealthy nutritional transition during this period. Finally, the article presents the potential benefits of a higher intake of vegetable protein from legumes in a possible new phase of nutritional transition.