Accordingly to the authors It is beyond the scope of this chapter to empirically explore the determinants of the commercialization of agriculture and its impact on poverty; so instead, they will present and discuss some empirical evidence on topics that remain hotly debated regarding commercialization and poverty. In Sect. 12.2, it is investigated how smallholder farmers in northern Vietnam have been affected by the recent food price volatility with respect to their income and consumption levels, while in Sect.
Uno de los problemas básicos que presenta el estudio y el análisis de la gobernanza de los Sistemas Agroalimentarios Localizados (Sial), consiste en la ausencia o debilidad de los indicadores. Uno de los pocos intentos que se han hecho en este sentido, es el realizado por Gómez, Boucher y Desjardins (2006) al tratar de analizar varios Sial en Colombia. Esta ponencia se propone identificar las dimensiones y acciones de gobernanza territorial.