A chief complaint was that many indigenous farmers were required to pay absentee landlords, despite repeated government promises of agrarian reform.

They helped start a guerrilla revolt of indigenous farmers.

About 700 of the 1,503 farms are earmarked not for the poor but for "transfer to indigenous farmers."

However, most of the benefits of these advances went to national and international corporations and workers and indigenous farmers organized against the regime.

Harsh conditions of exploitation repeatedly led to revolts by the indigenous farmers, which were forcibly suppressed.

This pursuit led him to Gabriel Howearth who had spent years with indigenous farmers learning about traditional healing plants and ancient farming practices.

There is little doubt that the indigenous farmers faced these problems and more.

The indigenous farmers also practiced extensive systems of land management that involved ecosystem management as well as simplified agro-ecosystems.

The lack of herd animals also meant that the indigenous farmers lacked their manure for fertilization.

Where rainfall was abundant, the indigenous farmers grew rain-fed crops.