Mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático a través de la promoción de mercados alternativos locales: Estudio del caso de la feria de consumo responsable en la cdla. Tarqui, parroquia La Mena, cantón Quito.

Abstract

The present study allowed the determination of the Ecological Footprint of the agroecological farms of the “Asociación del Buen Vivir” located in the Pedro Moncayo canton, Tabacundo parish; together with interviews developed to each one, it was possible to demonstrate how agroecological agriculture fights against the change of the paradigms of the agricultural system, positioning itself as the agriculture of the future recovering land damaged by the monocultures characteristic of the area. For the methodology used in the calculation of the Ecological Footprint, the present study was based on the proposal by Rees and Wackernagel that evaluate by components; water, soil, fuel and energy were established to calculate the footprint of this study. In order to reflect the differences between conventional and agroecological foods, through surveys and interviews with the families of the Tarqui citadel, La Mena parish, Quito canton, it was determined that 59% of the families surveyed know about Agroecological Foods, from this percentage reflected that its main supplier of Agroecological Foods are local alternative markets, known as “bioferias". From the results obtained in the surveys, calculation of the Ecological Footprint and interviews and focal group, it was evident that agroecology is contributing positively in the mitigation and adaptation to climate change, because it combats the negative impacts generated by the systems conventional agricultural. Both producers and consumers have achieved economic, social and environmental benefits while the transition to agriculture of the future, agroecology.