Improvement of skills in food safety and development of social capital in small farmers
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methodologies, associativity, good agricultural practices, transference, outreachAbstract
Food production derived from family farming is a fundamental theme nowadays. This is not just because it supplies a large part of the global and national population, but also because it is based on subject associated to poverty eradication and development. Because of this, the objective in this study is to evaluate the implementation of strategies for outreach and transference to improve the skills in food safety and to strengthen the social capital of vegetable and fruit small farmers (SFs). The study covered a universe of 126 SFs belonging to 12 rural communes of the region of Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins, Chile, associated to two main programs from the National Agriculture and Livestock Development Institute (Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario, INDAP): the Local Development Program (PRODESAL) and the Technical Assistance Program (SAT). The intervention was five months long, where two outreach seminars and three working sessions were conducted, limited to small farmers identified as “representatives or leaders”. A survey was applied during the seminars, at the beginning and the end of the intervention, which sought to measure the social capital of all participants. This information was complemented in working sessions with the farmers who were “representatives or leaders”. The participants presented a high level of trust regarding their peers (SFs) and the public institutions (73.8% of a total of 42 SFs), and a lower level of trust towards large-scale agricultural producers of the region (35.7%). In terms of the willingness to generate outreach between SFs, it is observed that there is interest and it is evaluated positively. However, when delving into their discourses, technical collaboration is not understood as a synonym of associativity.
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