Economía Social y Solidaria y su incidencia en los sistemas de producción rural, caso de estudio: Red Agroecológica de Loja, año 2014

Abstract

The Social and Solidarity Economy is an economic system that goes beyond the Market Economy, seeks to link the human being with his natural environment, with a clean production, rescuing the ancestral knowledge, through fair trade, whose purpose is development Inclusive for its actors. The Agroecological Network of Loja (RAL) is an association of agroecological producers that work under these principles. This study has used indicators that together encompass two dimensions of sustainable development: economic and social, after applying a composition of indicators the results have been favorable criteria in each dimension. Basically it can be verified that the social and solidarity economy allows a subsistence economy to the families and an acceptable quality of life and environment. However, criteria such as income within the economic composition and access to education within the social system remain to be studied in depth. In general the development can be taken as a quantitative criterion as long as its valuation is absolute otherwise it is still the perception that each human being has.