Publicación:

Economías campesinas, agricultura familiar y sostenibilidad en Colombia. Revisión de literatura

Resumen

Throughout this work we seek to explain the peasant economy, agriculture family and its sustainability, knowing each of the factors involved, we will know the importance of family farming in Colombia, which is preponderant, identifying family farms which represent 81.3% of the total of farms in the region and provides, at the country level, between 27% and 67% of the total production food; occupies between 12% and 67% of the agricultural area and generates between 57% and 77% of agricultural employment in the Colombian region. Family farming plays a crucial role since, as shown by the (National Agricultural Census -cna, 2014) yielded important data on the rural reality Colombian. For example, it showed that 82% of agricultural crops represent 6.3% of the total dispersed rural area, which is equivalent to 7 million 115 thousand hectares. These figures give us indicate that family farming corresponds to that form of agricultural production rural area that depends mainly on family work and that constitutes at the same time a unit of production and social reproduction. Family farming in Colombia has various characteristics, especially limited access to land, capital, goods, and public supply services and markets; rural family nuclei Co-evolve in the territories where various strategies are combined in the economic, ecological, political, social and cultural to guarantee their permanence.