Análisis de la cadena de valor del sector agro-productor del proyecto ELANET. Casos: Bolivia y Ecuador

Abstract

The investigation analyzes the value generation capacity of social enterprises to determine its impact on the agro productive value chains of the project European Latin American Network in Support of Social Entrepreneurs ELANET, this is due to the agro producers in the exercise of their economic activity, in which face difficulties for not receiving the proper recognition suitable for the importance of their contribution to the value of chains, despite of their strengthens. This insufficiency of assessment is due to the lack of tools that can measure the value-generation capacity of social enterprises; therefore, this is a way to limit the generation of competitivestrategies that highlight the values generated by agricultural producers. The qualitative method had an essential emphasis, and its design is based on the multiple holistic case study. The data was obtained by semi-structured interviews and the y review of secondary sources to create an analysis based on the strategy of the value chains. The results analyzed of both studies, corresponding to Bolivia and Ecuador show a capacity for the generation of value regardless of the internal and external challenges; the collaboration between the direct, and indirect actors provides technical and social support which makes a positive impact in the value chains within the ELANET project, driven by the initiatives of the social impact on producers.