The Role Of Globalization In Guatemala

Driving through Guatemala and talking to locals in Guatemala opened my eyes to the agriculture. Mostly everything that I saw was similar to the information that I found during the research in my presentation. But seeing what I learned about opened my eyes to the what the country of Guatemala was dealing with. Thought my time while driving through Guatemala I began to discover many interesting things about Guatemala. I noticed that all the farming fields seemed to take over the landscape. It seemed that there were just farming areas nestled in every which corner on the side of the mountains. I thought what happened to all the trees. It seemed that they had all been cut down. While in Guatemala I learned that many of the families that own the
I learned that some of the farmland is bought by large corporations from the local land owners. The large corporations would supply all the necessities for the farmers and would pay the local farmers to basically rent their land out to them. The large corporations get the crops in return. The large corporations will usually export the crops to other countries. But this causes issues when the large corporations decide that they don’t want to use the land anymore and then the land usually sits vacant and doesn’t get any use for farmland. In my predeparture research I learned that 3 percent of landlords own about 70 percent of the land. This information that I got about the large corporations getting crops from local farmers is new information that I did not know before the
I noticed that there were a lot of dug out spots on the mountain sides. I asked Alejandro what they were doing to the mountains and he said that they were digging out the mountains to find limestone to make the sand. He said that the company that does the searching for limestone has already dug out the inside of two mountains in Guatemala in search for limestone. On the trip, another interesting area where we visited was the forest reservation area. It was interesting to see a place where they cared about the environment in a country where there is a vast amount of deforestation. It was cool to see all the large trees in the reservation area that had been there for hundreds of years. From the owner of the forest reservation I learned that their goal is to think to the future and teach the kids what the issues can result from deforestation. Their hope is that the kids tell their parents in hope that the cutting down of trees