The fact that smallscale, semisubsistence farmers such as the indigenous coffee farmers of Central America and Mexico own their own land, organize along a kinbased system, and also produce a commodity for the global market demonstrates that

capitalism is slowly replacing the traditional ways of life of indigenous farmers around the world, who now can no longer rely on kinbased methods

they are relics of a precapitalist system

it is difficult to manage coffee orchards and corn fields during the same seasons

their economic activity is uniquely adapted to the contemporary global economy by utilizing several modes of production simultaneously