Abstract

FIGUEROA LUCERO, Omar Artemio. EVALUATION OF SUSTAINABILITY OF SYSTEMS OF COFFEE PRODUCTION IN FARM-HOME IN SAN JOSE SECTOR, SMALL TOWN LINARES-NARIÑO. Tend. [online]. 2016, vol.17, n.2, pp.111-125. ISSN 0124-8693.  https://doi.org/10.22267/rtend.161702.6.

The purpose of this article is to evaluate if the systems of agrocafe in San José sector located in the small town San Francisco are sustainable, considering that the productivity is located in fincas-hogar where the sustainability is associated with its social, economic, political, cultural and environmental development. The evaluation has been done through Principles-Criteria Indicators PCI weighted and qualify with the same community from a participative rural approach. As it has been mention, the World Social Forum related to Economic Forum with the position “Of another development (sustainable) is possible”, it is easy to understand that it should be measured from different perspectives where the economic production return from rural, social and environmental. Henceforth, the present evaluates sustainability with criteria and indicators as a result of a participative process, and although those criteria and indicators do not achieve the idea to dominate the external conditions that affect in a certain way the coffee agro-ecosystems, those criteria encourage finca-hogar support.

Keywords : sustainability; agro-ecosystem; evaluation; rural development; fin-ca-hogar.

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