Productos agroindustriales con ventaja comparativa revelada en la relación comercial entre Colombia y los demás países de la Alianza del Pacífico

Abstract

This book aims to present multiple perspectives for the analysis of production dynamics developed in rural areas of Latin American countries such as Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela. Authors address certain issues that affect (directly and indirectly) rural development and the challenge of consolidating a model that seeks the satisfaction of needs, employment and well-being of peasant populations. Such issues include large estate, conflict, production endeavors, internationalization, retail marketing, and environmental impacts. To highlight some results, it is concluded that: a) the large estate model is changeless in time, b) production endeavors in Production Transformation Plans lead to important results in local production, c) there are specific groups of agricultural and agro industrial products with high export potential in the country, d) the case of Mexican retail marketing companies allows to identify variables that highly affect marketers’ capital structure, and e) the diagnosis made in the Venezuelan case shows possible negative environmental impacts as a consequence of extractive activities in rural areas. Keywords: rural development, large estate, agricultural production, comparative advantages, extractivism