Challenges for Sustainability in Family Farming at the Atanagildo Cajigal Cooperative, Holguín, Cuba

Abstract

Family farming has a unique dynamic in each country, resulting in different manifestations of social relations and various impacts on the opportunities to promote the commercial, environmental, and sociocultural sustainability of this activity. The objective of this article was to study the challenges for sustainability and the environmental education alternatives that should be utilized by the Atanagildo Cajigal Family Agriculture Cooperative to achieve sustainable production by applying the principles of agroecology. A qualitative approach was adopted in the study, allowing for the consideration of the multiple dimensions and complexities of the context in which Cuban family agriculture develops. Environmental education is an alternative to promote agroecology in the cooperative of family producers, thus stimulating collective learning and the dialogue of knowledge, in a dynamic of interaction among various local actors, through dialogic communication and practical activities.