Abstract

RUIZ-CEDENO, Sebastiana del Monserrate. The agrifood sector and its competitiveness from associative models. Ing. Ind. [online]. 2016, vol.37, n.3, pp. 323-332. ISSN 1815-5936.

This study showed an overview of the food industry and the possibilities of making it more competitive through the use of associative models. He emphasized the importance of agriculture in developing countries and analyzing the causes that have impeded its progress; whose solution targeted towards the integration of all stakeholders: farmers, merchants, industrialists, society and government. Document analysis, analysis and synthesis in reviewing budgets: a descriptive study using the methods was conducted an exhaustive review of the literature on the subject, as well. The findings laid the need to form value chains, small producers must develop agribusiness and thus, a new associative model that allows them to improve their bargaining power and become legitimate interlocutors with the government and the private sector.

Keywords : food industry; associative models; agribusiness.

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