Skip to main content

The iony Moment: Migration, Livelihoods and Family Farming in the Upper Cañar Valley (Southern Ecuadorian Andes)

  • Chapter
  • First Online:

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Buying options

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   149.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD   199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    The delicate issue of transmission of the farm (subject to deferral due to increased parental life expectancy), the low remuneration of agricultural labour and the social prestige of those who emigrated successfully are the factors most likely to turn young people away from agriculture.

References

  • Barsky O (1984) La reforma agraria ecuatoriana. Corporación Editora Nacional, Quito, 406 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Cortes G (2008) Migrations, espaces et développement. Une lecture des systèmes de mobilité et des constructions territoriales en Amérique latine. HDR, spécialité géographie, Université de Poitiers

    Google Scholar 

  • Cortes G (2011) La fabrique de la famille transnationale. Approche diachronique des espaces migratoires et de la dispersion des familles rurales boliviennes. Autrepart 57–58:95–110

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cueva A (2003) El proceso de dominación política en el Ecuador. Planeta-Letravivia ediciones, Quito, 178 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Dollfus O (2007) La mondialisation. Coll. La bibliothèque du citoyen, Éditions de Sciences-Po, 171 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Ellis F (2000) Rural livelihoods and diversity in developing countries. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 273 p

    Google Scholar 

  • García Pascual F (2006) El sector agrario del Ecuador: incertidumbres (riesgos) ante la globalización. Íconos 24:71–88

    Google Scholar 

  • Gasselin P, Vaillant M, Bathfield B (2012) The activity system: a position paper. In: Producing and reproducing farming systems: new modes of organisation for the sustainable food systems of tomorrow, 10 IFSA European symposium, 1–4 July 2012, Aarhus University, Denmark. Retrieved 17 January 2018. https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/742998/filename/23_Gasselin-Vaillant-Bathfield_Vdef.pdf

  • Golte J (1987) La racionalidad de la organización andina. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, 124 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Gray C (2008) Out-migration and rural livelihoods in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes. PhD thesis, geography speciality, University of North Carolina, 190 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Herrera G, Moncayo M, Escobar A (2012) Perfil migratorio del Ecuador 2011. Organización internacional de las Migraciones, Quito, 128 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Kyle D (2000) Transnational peasants. Migrants, networks, and ethnicity in Andean Ecuador. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 251 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Lizet B, de Ravignan F (1987) Comprendre un paysage. Un guide pratique de recherche. Éditions Inra, Versailles, 143 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Mendras H (1992) La fin des paysans. Coll. Babel, Actes Sud, Arles, 436 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Milleville P (2007) Une agronomie à l’œuvre. Pratiques paysannes dans les campagnes du sud. Éditions Arguments-Quae, Paris, 252 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Oberem U (1981) El acceso a recursos naturales de diferentes ecologías en la Sierra ecuatoriana (siglo XVI). In: Contribución a la etnohistoria ecuatoriana, Moreno, Oberem, eds, 20, colección Pendoneros, Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología, Otavalo, Équateur, pp 45–71

    Google Scholar 

  • Palomeque S (1990) Cuenca en el siglo XIX. La articulación de una región. Colección Tesis Historia, ediciones Flacso Sede Ecuador-Abya-Yala, Quito, 296 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Polanyi K (1983) La grande transformation. Aux origines politiques et économiques de notre temps. Gallimard, Paris, 419 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Scoones I (1998) Sustainable rural livelihoods. A framework for analysis. IDS Working Paper. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, 22 p. Retrieved 17 December 2017. http://www.sarpn.org/documents/d0001493/P1833-Sustainable-rural-livelihoods_IDS-paper72.pdf

  • Scoones I (2009) Livelihoods perspectives and rural development. J Peasant Stud 36(1):171–196

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vaillant M (2013) L’araire ou la barque. Migrations, mondialisation et transformations agraires en haute vallée du Cañar (Andes australes de l’Équateur). PhD thesis, speciality comparitive agriculture, AgroParisTech, 552 p

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2018 Éditions Quæ

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Vaillant, M. (2018). The iony Moment: Migration, Livelihoods and Family Farming in the Upper Cañar Valley (Southern Ecuadorian Andes). In: Bosc, PM., Sourisseau, JM., Bonnal, P., Gasselin, P., Valette, É., Bélières, JF. (eds) Diversity of Family Farming Around the World. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1617-6_9

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics