ABSTRACT
The adoption of neo-liberal economic policies by the Fujimori government in the 1990s had major implications for peasant agriculture, as for other sectors. Twelve years after their initial implementation, these policies appear to have brought more losers than winners. Hit in particular by slack urban demand for food and a sharp increase in imports, low agricultural prices undercut peasant incomes. Those most affected were those producing primarily for the market, who were either forced back into subsistence farming or into seeking work in other areas. Rural poverty levels increased over this period, as did inequality in the agrarian sector.
