Localized Land-Sea Food System: Histories, Proposals and Limits of Huape Case, Los Ríos Region, Chile

Abstract

The coastline of the south of Chile links up domestic groups with their land-sea environment, creating socio-economic relationships of complementarity that promote and result in land-sea food cultures. Under a Localized Agrofood Systems (LAF) approach, we use an ethnographic-qualitative methodology focused on food-economy organizations of Huape. This work allowed us to evidence the presence of a Localized Land-Sea Food System, which co-exists with artisanal-fisheries specialization. That System develops from a land-sea culture and it is expressed in the re-invention of local gastronomy. However, the proposal is not exempt from controversies and counterpoints from the territorial context in which unfolds.