Food Sovereignty and Territory: The Domestic Production Unit as a Basic Premise

Abstract

While in the current economic model problems of poverty and hunger are still not resolved, in Mexico there are about 63 million people (CONEVAL, 2014), public policies should aim to strengthen the production units which, by their economic and organizational nature, they are more likely to produce cheap food for local final consumers and the same housed units allow reproduction of a huge population. In this article, it is exposed the progress of the research entitled Domestic production unit on food sovereignty: case study of localities with highest level of rurality in Jalisco, guided by the overall objective of generating information on domestic unit of production to assist in the development of a theoretical model that provides indicators on how to achieve food sovereignty in Mexico. This research is based on the hypothesis that strengthening the domestic unit of production is the basic premise to achieve food sovereignty. In this article results are shown of analysis of the relationship between the domestic unit of production and food sovereignty, to determine the conceptual criteria, their variables and indicators to develop tools and instruments methodological basis necessary to obtain the data for analysis, diagnosis and generation of information: results of analysis the existing theory and interviews with 38 domestic unit of production located in two municipalities with high rurality, Cuquío and San Cristóbal de la Barranca, located in the Central region of Jalisco, México.