Editing Economy of Guatemala (section)

=== Non-traditional agricultural exports ===
The shift to the production of non-traditional agricultural exports (NTAE) is a strategy used by developing countries like Guatemala to grow the agricultural sector and decreasing inequality by including the rural poor in the benefits of [[globalization]].<ref name=":8">{{Cite journal|last1=Carletto|first1=Calogero|last2=Kirk|first2=Angeli|last3=Winters|first3=Paul C.|last4=Davis|first4=Benjamin|date=2010-06-01|title=Globalization and Smallholders: The Adoption, Diffusion, and Welfare Impact of Non-Traditional Export Crops in Guatemala|journal=World Development|language=en|volume=38|issue=6|pages=814–827|doi=10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.02.017|issn=0305-750X|url=http://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/rp2008-18.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412024328/https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/rp2008-18.pdf |archive-date=2018-04-12 |url-status=live}}</ref> The most important NTAE crops in Guatemala include
* fruit like mangos, melons, and berries
* vegetables like cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, and snow peas
* organic crops such as coffee.<ref name=":112">{{Cite journal|last=Damiani|first=Octavio|date=2000-09-01|title=The State and Nontraditional Agricultural Exports in Latin America: Results and Lessons of Three Case Studies|journal=Idb Publications |doi=10.18235/0006872 |url=http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=355266|language=en}}</ref> The value of non-traditional agricultural export crops has increased from $146 million US in 1992 to $262 million in 2001.<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal|last1=Carletto|first1=Calogero|last2=Kilic|first2=Talip|last3=Kirk|first3=Angeli|date=2009|title=Non-Traditional Export Crops in Guatemala: Short-Term Tool or Long-Term Strategy for Poverty Alleviation?|url=http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US2016210394|journal=AGRIS: International Information System for the Agricultural Science and Technology|language=en}}</ref> IN 1998, NTAE accounted for 8.7 percent of the total exports.<ref name=":112"/> NTAE production largely comes from small-scale farmers. While the farmers who are involved in this market are not failing, this market limits their capital accumulation to slow growth, and therefore they are not able to profit highly off of this market.<ref name=":10">{{Cite journal|last1=Hamilton|first1=Sarah|last2=Fischer|first2=Edward F.|date=2003-11-06|title=Non-Traditional Agricultural Exports in Highland Guatemala: Understandings of Risk and Perceptions of Change|journal=Latin American Research Review|language=en|volume=38|issue=3|pages=82–110|doi=10.1353/lar.2003.0033|issn=1542-4278|citeseerx=10.1.1.200.2662|s2cid=143377810}}</ref>