Solar seminar: Sustainability of Paesant Agricolture

As part of Solars' appointments, the 16th seminar on Sustainability of Paesant Agricolture will take place on Friday 16th June 2017 at Campus Luigi Einaudi (Room F4, Lungo Dora Siena 100/A, Torino).

Practices related to the sustainability of family agriculture include peasant valuation of social and environmental aspects of the rural environment, agro-ecological production, family work, and self-sufficiency related to external inputs. Additional family agriculture practices include the participation in alternative markets and other networks of resistance, cooperation and social mobilization, as well as food processing and the rationalization of commodification. This helps shape public policies and initiatives of resistance, cooperation and social mobilization, and to enforce a agro-ecological transition of local agri-food systems and alternative markets for food sovereignty.
 
Ten production systems from the peasant economy in three Latina American contexts have been studied and compared focusing on economic, monetary, energy and social aspects. The results show that only three of ten production systems were sustainable in those aspects. 

Introduction by Dario Padovan and Cristina Peano.
Speaker: Adriana Chaparro (Universitad Nacional de Colombia)