A Mix of Strategies from Family Farming in a Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market in Argentina

In a framework of disputes between the logics of agribusiness and peasantry as orientations that fight for agri-food development models in Latin America, the experiences of the wholesale fruit and vegetable markets promoted by migrant producers of Family Farming become relevant. In order to understand the contribution of these markets and their agents, this paper will present an analysis of the productive and commercial strategies of the family units that drive them. It will be applied from the approach of the internal balances of family units that Van der Ploeg (2016) takes up from the Chayanovian perspective, taking the case study of the Saropalca Fruit and Vegetable Market inserted in the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires, Argentina. To this end, qualitative methodology will be used with a review of primary and secondary sources. As part of the conclusions, it is concluded that the insertion of family producers-operators in the chains through their own practices and forms generated, positions small-scale family farming in the regional supply circuit, contributing to the construction of creative and possible development alternatives based on the mixture of strategies deployed by their family and organizational units.

• Автор: Santin, Antonella Agustina (author)
• Формат: article
• Мова: spa
• Опубліковано: 2025
• Предмети: Agribusiness; Peasantry; Wholesale Associative Markets; Family Farming Strategies; Agronegocio; campesinado; Mercados Asociativos Mayoristas; Estrategias de la Agricultura Familiar; Agribusiness - Peasants - Associative Wholesale Markets - Family Farming Strategies
• Онлайн доступ: https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/eutopia/article/view/144-168