Prácticas alimentarias y patrones de compra de los consumidores que se abastecen en circuitos alternativos de comercialización en Quito, Ecuador

Latorre, Sara; April-Lalonde, Gabriel; Paredes, Myriam; Muñoz, Fernando Miralles

doi:10.1353/lag.0.0183

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“…These alternative markets are not only outlets of food provisioning but also spaces where identities are re‐configured and strengthen through the valuation of traditional food and practices, or where educational processes occur towards healthier food‐related behaviours. For instance, in the case of Quito farmer markets, the main reason for consumers to buy in these markets is for health concerns and not so much to support family and peasant agriculture (Latorre et al, 2023).…”

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Family farmers' strategies to develop autonomy through agroecological and solidarity economy practices: The case of BioVida in the Ecuadorian Andes

Villalba-Eguiluz

Latorre

Jiménez

2023

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Considering the global restructuring affecting agrarian landscapes, we build on the concept of autonomy proposed by van der Ploeg and colleagues (but extended and critically complemented) to analyse how family farmers can build this autonomy to face rural capitalist tendencies and maintain their activities and identity. We offer insights from a case study in the Ecuadorian Andes, the BioVida organization that is linked to agroecological and social and solidarity economy movements. Our findings show that family farming autonomy is not being achieved homogeneously for the whole household but must be analysed through an intersectional approach. Furthermore, there are simultaneous processes to achieve different degrees of autonomy and (inter‐)dependency, which are co‐constitutive along gender and age lines and are conditioned by structural constraints. Therefore, for our case study area, agribusiness and family farming processes and spaces seem to operate co‐constitutively rather than antagonistically in practical terms. Agroecology‐based achievements so far act as a localized buffer against adversity rather than an emancipative territorial project of autonomy.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%