Abstract
The popular and solidarity economy (EPS) emerges as an alternative approach to poverty aligned with the principles of sustainable development; in this sense, some countries in the region have adopted policies for its growth and development, among them Ecuador. The experience of a rural community was shown; the objective of the study was to identify the factors that hinder the achievement of better efficiency indexes, regarding the implementation of policies at the local level, with respect to rural productive associations. The case of the agricultural productive associations located in the parish of El Valle, Cuenca, Ecuador, was studied. The type of research was mixed: quantitative to support the information extracted from the instruments applied and derive the pertinent analysis and qualitative to collect primary information from the actors involved in the study. We used the action research model through the use of surveys, interviews and focus groups. The key contribution of this work was to making visible and understanding the needs of the rural communities of the sector from their development perspectives, respecting their ancestral knowledge and articulating from the academy the private–public action for the generation of policies for governance, effective application of democracy and promotion of the technical and associative potential of the agroecological productive units. The results show regularities in terms of their socioeconomic situation, their mode of action and the impact caused on their productive dynamics by the atomized decisions of local actors in the exercise of governance. These fail to articulate the implementation of policies at the territorial level to the detriment of their effectiveness and efficiency and, therefore, do not bring about substantial changes in their levels of dependence and dynamics of productive activity—diagnostic components that will be used for the formulation of joint multilevel policies.
Highlights
Poverty rates in Latin America have been on the rise, a situation that is accentuated in rural areas, and the policies implemented by the countries that are part of this bloc have not been able to eliminate the causes of this situation
A total of 8 agricultural production associations in the El Valle area were selected for the study, of which 5 are subscribed to the requirements of the National Secretariat of Planning and Development (SENPLADES) and the rest are productive associsubscribed to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), the first link to move ations subscribed to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), the first link to to the entrepreneurial form under the conditions of the Planning and move to the entrepreneurial form under the conditions of the National Secretariat of PlanDevelopment (SENPLADES)
The perception oflinked these to people with respect to the decisions taken by the the perception of these people with respect to the decisions taken by the territorial territorial GAD and other actors, who intervene in the territorial space in favor of the fulGAD
Summary
Poverty rates in Latin America have been on the rise, a situation that is accentuated in rural areas, and the policies implemented by the countries that are part of this bloc have not been able to eliminate the causes of this situation. The causes [1] date back to colonial times and are reflected today in the permanence of conditions of structural inequality and unequal exchange. Under these conditions, the countries of the periphery bear the brunt, provoked by a clear dependence for their economic growth on the exploitation of natural resources, sustained by an economic model of primary production, which is based on the exploitation of natural resources
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