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The purpose of this document is to present a first overview of how the international economic environment has affected the way the Peruvian agricultural sector operates. The first section presents in a very schematic way how international markets have historically linked the agricultural policies of developed and underdeveloped countries. Then, in the second section, the impact of the evolution of the international environment on Peruvian agriculture is evaluated, with emphasis on how the cyclical balance of payments crises through which Peru has passed have conditioned its particular form of insertion in international markets and the subsidiary role of the agricultural sector in the growth pattern of the economy.