Resumen

ROLDAN RUEDA, Héctor Nicolás; GRACIA, María Amalia; SANTANA, María Eugenia  y  HORBATH, Jorge Enrique. Organic markets in Mexico: scenarios for alternative social construction. Polis [online]. 2016, vol.15, n.43, pp.581-605. ISSN 0718-6568.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-65682016000100027.

In response to the crisis that the world is facing, some alternative models are emerging aiming to make economic sectors more dynamic and articulate, which usually are excluded by the free market economy. Among these models, organic/local farmer markets are one of the initiatives with the capacity to affect the production process of certain goods and the social networks that sustain them. More over, these types of farmer markets also provide a framework for other forms of economies. Based on fieldwork in three organic/local farmer markets with heterogeneous characteristics in Mexico, this paper considers the principal elements that have enabled the existence of these markets in the last decade. Additionally, this paper analyses these types of farmer market’s potentiality, limits, and tensions for consolidating other ways to think and pursue economic processes.

Palabras clave : economic processes; alternative markets; solidarity economy; organic production.

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