بيانات العضو
السيد Rowens Andreick Cristancho Gómez
المنظمة:
ONG FAMILIA RASMUSSEN
الدولة:
بيرو
مجال (مجالات) الخبرة:
I am working on:
Personal research and entrepreneur with food supply.
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السيد Rowens Andreick Cristancho Gómez
Hi dear everyone, my name is Rowens Cristancho, I live in Colombia, South America.
I’m biologist, and like all of you, I'm really concerned about the global food security. In this forum, I have seen opinions from many professors and PhDs; I´m sorry, I don´t have a lot of professional experience, I received my bachelor degree a couple of days ago. Some of you have cited many reports about street food vendors, I don´t have a lot of data, but something I know, I was for a long time a street food vendor in order to pay my basic needs and my professional studies.
Food street sales in my country is a current activity to get money in the urban poverty zones. This situation is produced by the fact that there are two kind of markets for food; I don´t know if this denomination way is right, but I called them: the big formal market and the little informal market. For the first one, the productive chain looks like this: a really big agricultural company produces tons of tomatoes, the tomatoes are sold in bulk to companies like Jumbo, who distributes the tomatoes in a high price but with a really sexy presentation, or McDonalds who uses the tomatoes in its products. I know that you know more than me about this topic. For the second one, the productive chain looks like this: a little local farmer can´t produce tons of tomatoes, he just produces some pounds; he carries his products to the local market where the prices are lower, this place is visited by poor people, who can´t buy in Jumbo (like me), in order to prepare street food, because is a fast and practical way to get some money.
I would like learn from you more about this situation, and sharing information science different points of view like social economic, scientific, and practical experience.
Thank you.