The Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS), an alternative to valorization biosphere reserves products
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The Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) was created as certificatory alternative to organic management practices in agricultural production, to face small holders’ inaccessibility to the third-part certificatory systems dominant the food global market. The project “The Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity to Cuba: Linking the natural’s landscape and the agricultural landscape to reach the Millennium Developed Objectives (COBARB), in synergy with the "Project to Sustainable Agricultural Support in Cuba" (PAAS) adopted this system as an alternative to valorize the small holder agricultural products and to improve the accessibility to the food local market. This paper addresses the principles to build the SPG, its Cuban structure, the step to access this guaranty and a case study showing the characterization of farms integrating the first Biosphere Reserves SPG, as well as, the specific indicators that the farms developing this kind of agriculture must fulfil.
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