Family farming, food security and agroecology in the Bolivian Andean Valleys

This study is an agrarian diagnosis of the Caíne Valley in Toro Toro, North Potosí, Bolivia. Caíne farmers are today exposed to many risks: dependence on the prices of a main product (lemon), external dependence to renew fertility, increasing parasite pressure, shortage of irrigation water, etc.).

It asks two questions:

• does the increase in surpluses sold by family farms necessarily go hand in hand with a reverse evolution of agroecology

• can food autonomy and supply go hand in hand with the agro-ecological transition?

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