Strategy for the Sustainability of a Food Production System for the Prosperity of Low-Income Populations in an Emerging Country: Twenty Years of Experience of the Peruvian Poultry Association

Alejandro Fontana, Ignacio De los Ríos Carmenado, Johan Villanueva-Penedo, José Ulloa-Salazar and Denisse Santander-Peralta
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Alejandro Fontana: PAD Escuela de Dirección, Universidad de Piura, Av. Aldebarán 160, Lima 15023, Peru
Ignacio De los Ríos Carmenado: GESPLAN Research Group. School of Agricultural, Food and Biosystems Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Calle Ramiro de Maeztu, 7, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Johan Villanueva-Penedo: PAD Escuela de Dirección, Universidad de Piura, Av. Aldebarán 160, Lima 15023, Peru
José Ulloa-Salazar: PAD Escuela de Dirección, Universidad de Piura, Av. Aldebarán 160, Lima 15023, Peru
Denisse Santander-Peralta: PAD Escuela de Dirección, Universidad de Piura, Av. Aldebarán 160, Lima 15023, Peru

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-18

Abstract: This research shows a business initiative that has been able to integrate into an environmentally sustainable food production system, such as poultry farming, a positive impact on food security and public health patterns of low-income populations in an emerging country. For a process that took 20 years, the adopted strategy has become a positive experience of sustainability and prosperity in low-income populations in Peru. The objective of the research is to conceptualize and identify the key elements of this experience so that its replication in other food production systems to impact favorably the prosperity of such vulnerable population. The Working With People (WWP) model, a validated methodology for analyzing the sustainability and prosperity of rural areas in Europe, is used for the analysis of this experience. The analysis shows that the presence of the three dimensions of this model (political-contextual, technical-business, and ethical-social) ensure the sustainability of a food production system that has an impact on the prosperity of low-income populations in emerging countries. This balance is important to enrich the connections between sustainability and prosperity, with other concepts such as core values in companies, public-private cooperation, food safety, inclusion and consumption patterns.

Keywords: sustainability; food systems; nutrition; public-private cooperation; corporate values; sanitary control; food safety; prosperity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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