Governance and Articulation from the Externado de Colombia University with Its Environment: A Look from the Multifunctional and Territorialized Agri-Food Systems

Hector Heraldo Rojas-Jiménez (), Fernando Herrera-Chiquillo, Patricia Guzmán-Aguilera, Flavio Rodríguez-Muñoz, Angélica Triana-Vega, Mario Pinzón-Camargo and Diana Beltrán-Vargas
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Hector Heraldo Rojas-Jiménez: Lecturer and Researcher at Finance, Government and International Relations School, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá 111711, Colombia
Fernando Herrera-Chiquillo: Lecturer and Researcher at Business Administration School, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá 111711, Colombia
Patricia Guzmán-Aguilera: Lecturer and Researcher at Mathematics Department, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá 111711, Colombia
Flavio Rodríguez-Muñoz: Lecturer and Researcher at Social Science School, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá 111711, Colombia
Angélica Triana-Vega: Lecturer and Researcher at Cultural Heritage Studies School, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá 111711, Colombia
Mario Pinzón-Camargo: Lecturer and Researcher at Finance, Government and International Relations School, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá 111711, Colombia
Diana Beltrán-Vargas: Lecturer and Researcher at Finance, Law School Economic Law Department, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá 111711, Colombia

Land, 2022, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Bogota, the capital of Colombia, has recently presented an important expansion of its territory. This has triggered the displacement of rural and peasant areas. However, some neighboring municipalities have managed to stay out of the city’s growth process thanks to their geographical conditions and have also generated important links from their agri-food systems. In these articulation processes, the governance schemes and its actors are key. This analysis seeks to answer what have been the main strategies and coordination mechanisms implemented by the Universidad Externado de Colombia (UEC) to achieve multiple interactions between the actors involved in the multifunctional and territorialized agri-food systems (MTLAFS MTLAFS). For the above, the municipality of Choachi and its relationship with Externado University as an articulator of actions that contribute to the construction of territorial and regional dynamics are taken as an illustrative case. Within the framework of the qualitative methodology, case studies were used, with the concept of governance as the axis of analysis. As part of the results, some recommendations are presented for the work of universities in multifunctional and territorialized short circuits, as well as for the understanding of the actors, mainly the university, in the governance schemes of agri-food systems.

Keywords: agri-food systems; multifunctional and territorialized short circuits; governance schemes; multifunctional and territorialized agri-food systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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