Estudio de las Cadenas de Suministro agro-alimentarias de Pichincha con un enfoque en sostenibilidad.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to determine the variables affecting demand in the Agrifood Supply Chain (ASC) under a focus on sustainability in microenterprises dedicated to corn cultivation in Pichincha, Ecuador. For this purpose, the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) tool was used. First, an approach was made with the microenterprises to build the CSA that characterizes them, so that it is composed of seed nurseries, producers/microenterprises, retailers, and final consumers. Next, a bibliometric analysis on the subject was carried out to determine the variables to be used in the PCA, which were the quantity of native or transgenic seeds, total production, CO2 emissions, crop losses, retail price, retail demand, retail losses, price of the substitute product and consumer price. From the application of the PCA it was obtained that the principal components one and two capture 63.6% of the total variance of the data; more specifically, the variables retail price, consumer price and retail losses are those that contribute the highest percentage of variance to component one, and transgenic seed, native seed, and price of the substitute product to component two. Therefore, they contribute to the variability of the data, allowing a description of the patterns or trends present in the data to be made on the basis of them.