Gestión de la calidad de la leche en centros de acopio comunitarios en función de la normativa nacional y desarrollo local en la cuenca del Río Pisque.

Abstract

Milk producers have adapted in different ways to the public policies issued to regulate this activity; These have improved the price, but they have also required effort to comply. The objective of this systematization was to analyze the management of milk quality in response to regulations and the participation and incidence of small producers in the elaboration, implementation and evaluation of public policies related to milk quality and changes in living conditions and local development in the Pisque river basin. Information was collected from bibliographic sources, thereby establishing a timeline that allowed reviewing the complexity of the quality standards; in a second moment, interviews were conducted with representatives and partners of the collection centers to reconstruct the process of adapting their livestock practices to comply with regulations and changes in living conditions at the personal and community level. Among the main lessons learned, the education and training, as well as the scientific technical support of the UPS has been the basis for compliance with the regulations, the lack of a communication channel with the government institutions in charge of defining public policy in around milk, so the producers are unaware of the formulation and evaluation process of the regulations. The changes in living conditions, although it is true that they were not exactly determined, show that income from this activity contributes to the economy of families and the generation of direct jobs, especially for women, promoting local development in the Pisque basin