Análisis del proceso de desarrollo del consorcio queseras de Bolívar (FUNCONQUERUCOM)

Abstract

The objective of this research is to investigate the community development process of the Community Rural Cheese Shops Consortium of Bolivar (FUNCONQUERUCOM), for which an interdisciplinary analysis is carried out with an integrative approach, framing both the object of study and the process of organizational and market practices. The following concepts are addressed within the research: social management, development, community solidarity economy and popular and solidarity economy, since they are considered fundamental for the analysis of the dimensions.

From this process of interrelation, both social, political, human and cultural, a proposal is made to analyze the results of the development process, having a non-experimental descriptive scope made from a quantitative analysis, in which they are used in different techniques such as: documentary research, observation in its initial stage and interviews made directly to consortium records.

The results obtained from the analysis found that the consortium is a social organization in which the benefit of people has prevailed over profitability. It is also characterized by its growth and sustainability over time, it increases from 104 milk producing partners to 1200 producers, who manage to prepare 25620 kilos of monthly questions, are located within the parish of Salinas and national level in the provinces of Chimborazo, Imbabura, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas and Pichincha, principles of solidarity, cooperation and mutual benefit, thus managing to incorporate small producers into the market.