Economic valuation of family farming in the peruvian Amazon in the present contexts of ecological and social crisis

Abstract

The present work corresponds to five different case studies of peasant agriculture and of 2 social types: one Amazonian and the other Andean immigrant, located in four different ecological floors. It was carried out in the Pilluana and Three United districts, Picota province, San Martín department, Upper Amazon of Peru. Open and semi-structured interviews were conducted and, direct observations of the various activities that exist in each family property with tours of each of the plots that it has on its properties in order to record in -situ information regarding the diversity they conserve, the uses and destinations of this diversity, concentrating on the value of diversity that is market oriented; it was analyzed on the basis of diversified production data, production volumes, values for each of them, environmental values, and food security and sovereignty; noting their resilience, adaptation and mitigation to the disorders of the contexts that present themselves.