Income and Marketing Volumes of Peri-urban Family Farming

Abstract

Alternative Marketing Circuits (AMCs) promoted by family farming organizations have emerged to enable better conditions for the commercialization of their production. Within this framework, this study collected and analyzed the production volumes and income of eight organized family farming households in La Plata and Florencio Varela (Province of Buenos Aires) over two months in 2023. The objective was to evaluate the importance of AMCs in relation to conventional channels. The results indicate that these families have the capacity to sell a greater quantity and variety of vegetables and obtain better prices compared to sales made via "culata de camión" (farm-gate sales to intermediaries).