Multifmultifunctional agriculture and integration of farming production systems within agribusiness chains.

Nowadays is recognized that the agriculture goes beyond that only the food production, so the concept of agricultural multifunctionality is introduced in order to describe this fact, recovering the true sense of the agriculture, and classifying its functions in three groups: 1) food security, 2) env...

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Autores:
Cotes Torres, Alejandro
Urbina Rojas, Nicolás
Cotes Torres, José Miguel
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2007
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/36670
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/36670
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/26754/
Palabra clave:
Agrifood system
Developing countries
Economic development
International foods Trade
Non-commodities agricultural outputs.
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openAccess
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Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:Nowadays is recognized that the agriculture goes beyond that only the food production, so the concept of agricultural multifunctionality is introduced in order to describe this fact, recovering the true sense of the agriculture, and classifying its functions in three groups: 1) food security, 2) environment, and 3) socio cultural. In each one of these functions, the agricultural production systems generate two categories of products: a) the traditional outputs (commodities), such as food, fibers and energy, and b) the non traditional outputs (non-commodities), which included aspects related with the environment and territory, employment, human resources and work, food safety and quality, animal welfare, food security and economic autonomy of the rural regions among others. Finally, we explore the evolution that agricultural production systems have had from a productivist focus toward a model where the new paradigm is the multifunctional agriculture, where the developing countries could have an important place.