Sistematización de la experiencia del Centro de acopio y enfriamiento de leche “Cristo Rey” de la comunidad de Yanacocha, cantón Biblián de la provincia de Cañar.

Abstract

In this systematization of the experience of the milk collection and cooling center ¨Cristo Rey¨ of the community of Yanacocha located in the canton Biblián province of Cañar, the results of the lived process are presented, as well as the internal and external factors that have contributed to stimulate or stop the socio-organizational advances of the association of dairy producers. In the reconstruction of the experience were marked milestones of the transformations in the organizational, administrative, economic processes that have contributed in the improvement of the milk production of the area, increasing the economic income of producers and their families and therefore increasing the Development of the locality. The information was obtained through observation, dialogue and interviews with the actors involved in the experience, surveys, group workshops and literature review, which served as the basis for this systematization. From the analysis of information, two lessons learned from experience were gathered: associativity and productive innovation. Associativity as a key to change in terms of cooperation, equity and solidarity; and permanent productive innovation to respond to the demands and needs of the local and provincial market without leaving aside the exchange and rescue of ancestral knowledge as a basis for the generation of processes oriented towards sustainability and local development.