نبذة مختصرة : L'article s'appuie sur une communication dans l'atelier : "Exclusión o recomposición del campesinado en América Latina?" proposé au Vème Congrès international du CEISAL (Bruxelles, 11-14 avril 2007). El artículo se apoya en una comunicación en el taller "Exclusión o recomposición del campesinado en América Latina?" del V Congreso Internacional del CEISAL (Bruselas, 11-14 abril del 2007). ; International audience ; Broccoli in Ecuador: the green gold rush Non traditional crops, farming strategies, globalisation Specialisation in non traditional export crops is, to southern countries, a means of responding to the globalisation process affecting agriculture. Hence, since the 1990's, an actual broccoli rush is observed in Ecuador's Andean region - which offers worldwide unique sun and altitude conditions. Broccoli is mainly produced in haciendas and aimed for frozen foods. However small-scale farmers, said to be marginalised and pauperised, are not excluded from this economic niche and partake in the recomposition it entails in the rural world. With support from a national NGO, some have been able to adjust at different levels: beyond production, the development of marketing networks is the farming strategy they embrace. Such networks are vertical through production, processing and export stages; they are also horizontal amid small Ecuadorian and Andean farmers exchanging experiences. In return, consequences of these new crops in development terms are very localised and suggest differentiating a number of communities in the Sierra (Ibarra, Riobamba), as well as among farmers within each community. Integration thus seems to mainly rely on small farmers already strongly organised, then tends to strengthen such bonds, providing their territory with an identity based on their own capacity for innovation. ; La especialización en un cultivo de exportación no tradicional es una de las respuestas de los países del Sur a los procesos de globalización que afectan a la agricultura. En efecto, desde la década de los noventa, se ...
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