CITIES & towns, INTERNATIONAL trade, RURAL geography, GEOLOGIC faults, AGRICULTURE
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The following article has as objective to analyze the emergence in El Salvador of family farming and the social category family farmer. To that purpose, this article uses mainly two theoretical concepts: family farming and policy transfer. Evidence suggests that the appropriation of the social category "family farmer" in El Salvador responds to an update of formerly used concepts small producer or commercial producer. Hence, it's not possible to find technical, theoretical or methodological grounds to justify the use of family farmer as new social category in El Salvador. The adoption of family farmer comes as a result of a policy transfer enhanced by three vectors: political affinity between Brazil's and El Salvador's presidents, bureaucrat's paper and work performed by intergovernmental organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Geography, Latin Americans, Agriculture, business.industry, General Medicine, Economic geography, Metabolic rift, business, Agroecology, Social movement
Abstract
Agriculture and produce have always provided a fundamental link between rural and urban areas. However, global agricultural trade has reduced the reliance of cities on their surrounding areas for food, resulting in both a disruption in the agri-food link and an increasing ecological imbalance. This paper proposes to integrate the metabolic rift theory, rooted in political economy tradition, and agroecology, an approach extensively developed as a science, farming practice and social movement in Latin America. The emerging approach is called agroecological metabolism and helps to better understand the socio-ecological implications of the disruption and reconexion of the agri-food link between geographically proximate rural and urban sites. The paper also discusses the approach’s potential application in Latin America.
Zahniser, Steven, Herrera Moreno, Adriana, and Calderón Ruanova, Arturo
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Published
2016
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