From Moises

Today with the speed of travel and communication groups increasingly face the problem of finding a common language. On this occasion we gathered together to discuss our connections and disconnections with the world of Academia, which is a force that forms through systematic analysis of experience, and the world of the campesino, which is designed by pure experience. From both ends of the spectrum there are frustrations. Investigators have to decide if we choose to play the role of parasite, cold collectors of information, or beneficial diplomats from a world with far too many options. The campesino problems are directly related to the intrusive ¨industrial¨ world. The fascination with bigger and better products fetishize the position of the investigator, agronomist, and scholar. If a people are uninformed we hold a power which is based on blind faith. Sergio, one of the Anthropologists of the group, shared an experience he had with an indigenous community in which the community saw him as a Government official. They gathered their identification documents thinking he was there to offer government benefits. What I see is a lapse of nonhierarchical information. An agronomist can offer chemical fertilizers and pesticides, but not information of the world's problems. The connection we made today is the construction of a language that humbly spreads experience.

Moises