Family farming systems: An index-based approach to the drivers of agroecological principles in the southern Andes

Cortés, Josefina; Vieli, Lorena; Ibarra, José Tomás

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110640

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“…Family farming systems in general, and home gardens in particular, are important settings for the implementation of agroecological practices [12]; its administration is in charge of the family and the family resides in it or in a nearby place [11], a way of life of community work which differentiates it from other types of capitalist economy [13].…”

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Family Farming as a Contribution to Food Sovereignty, Case Guarainag Parish

Verdugo,

Cuadrado,

Castillo

2023

Agriculture

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The objective of this research is to analyze how family farming contributes to food sovereignty; the Guarainag parish of the Paute canton in the province of Azuay-Ecuador is taken as a case of study. This work responds to the necessity to explain the elements that impact food sovereignty in the existing food crisis in Latin America and specifically in Ecuador in search of self-sufficiency for healthy food products and people’s own local culture. For this purpose, a Food Sovereignty Index was constructed through ten quantitative and qualitative indicators. The research has a correlational and explanatory scope; quantitative methods were used to measure food sovereignty through a binary logit regression model, which provided an answer to the hypothesis of the research, which consisted of testing the influence of family farming on food sovereignty. Furthermore, to collect the information, a survey was applied to 372 small farmers with the support of digital mapping and the Kobol Tulboox software version 1.27.3. The result was a Food Sovereignty Index of 59.79%, which, according to the scale used, places the territory in a high average. In addition, the hypothesis was verified, concluding that there is a direct relationship among the following elements of family farming such as number of household members, family labor, group of products, type of animals, tillage technology, natural fertilizer, and altitudinal levels with food sovereignty. For future research, it is recommended that the variable of climate change has to be incorporated in order to observe its impact on food sovereignty.

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confidence: 99%