Producción no convencional de leche y desarrollo comunitario: experiencias en la provincia del Carchi.

Abstract

The work presents the results of the systematization experience in the unconventional production bovine milk and community development in the province of Carchi, identified the hacienda El Carmen, located in the Cristobal Colón which is a town of the canton Montufar. For that, it looks for the identification of internal and external factors that have given or not impulse to a local process of the town and specifically the mode and level of development is determined, for which different dimensions are analyzed, especially the productive-economic. The information was collected by reviewing bibliographical sources, field visits and interviews with the actors involved in the experience of the hacienda El Carmen and the representatives of the town GAD. In the reconstruction of the experience the logics that have been guiding transformations in the agricultural activity in the hacienda are specified, as well as the parallel processes that occurred in the town, such as: the commodification of the land, the incorporation of improvements or exogenous innovations who have contributed in the improvement of the milk production model present in the area. The factors that condition and potentiate the massification of unconventional milk production and that have contributed to the development of the locality were identified. Among the lessons learned it is pointed out the easy of applying unconventional practices in milk production and the need to adopt sustainable production models, as well as developing participatory development plans that respond to local reality.