“…27 In this context, the pesant families of our three study areas are caught in a "vicious circle of vulnerability" (Becerra, 2014: 4), at first, economically and nutritionally. In Victoria del Portete, farms that once produced maize and tubers that, for the most part, provided their livelihoods, now depend on often irregular income (Rebaï, 2013 and from migration to cover their food needs. In Salcedo and San Luis, farmers are also forced to stock up on the market to feed themselves but with the risk of having few economic resources because of the sometimes-limited profits they can derive from their fruit sales, vegetables or tubers.…”