Abstract
Today the potato crop in the town of Villapinzón , located in the Andean region of Colombia , it develops as agribusiness monocultures of different sizes , this practice has generated an imbalance of agro- ecosystems, which support the growth of “pests “ that impact on productivity and the needs imposed by the market to the producers. As the only technical solution promoting institutions that offer this type of agriculture pesticide use, this causes serious impacts on health and environment of collective farmers.This paper presents the results of the qualitative research phase of the project “Exposure to mancozeb and health effects of potato growers Villapinzón “ where ethnographic study that had as its overall objective to trouble from the articulation of the raised popular knowledge and scientific meanings of farmers regarding the knowledge, beliefs and lifestyles, to identify determinants terms of the relationship between rural labor and exposure to pesticides.As one of the main results were achieved analyze how the hegemonic logic model implemented rural development in Colombia , identified a particular cultural identity of the group of potato growers , setting lifestyles for the logic of the market and production -intensive agro- toxic , which are deleterious to health.
