New solidarity ruralities in the northern peri-urban area of Santa Fe

The Monte Vera Production Companies Fair, possibilities and limits in the 2016-2020 period

Abstract

Interventions in the social field are reconfigured and must (re)thought from the succession of different social, economic and political changes. University extension, as a form of intervention, has the challenge of thinking, building agendas thought from a territorial perspective. In this article we address an experience framed in the new solidarity ruralities, the Monte Vera Production Fair, located in the homonymous town, in the northern peri-urban area of ​​Santa Fe in Argentina. In this work we describe and analyze the Fair from its formation and how it was changing and adapting mainly to the circumstances that occurred in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. In this way, in the corresponding period between the years 2016-2020, a series of changes take place both in the way of sociability and in the way of commercialization of the members of the Fair. In this context, we highlight the work of the producers and the relationship established with a set of state, educational and production support institutions, in the construction and consolidation of food sovereignty and the social and solidarity economy at the local scale.