“…On the one hand, they respond in some way to the insistent calls for a dike to contain the impacts of the agroindustrial system; on the other hand, they respond to the search for economic diversification strategies for sectors of the population that have some form of access to material resources (land, mostly) but also social and cultural resources to engage in primary activities. In this sense, our work coincides with the studies reported on small peri-urban agroecological production units in the cities of the global South, which show that they are part of the strategies to improve economic income and food security [51][52][53][54][55][56]; in fact, their viability and eventual reproduction depends to a large extent on other economic income. In developed countries, on the other hand, as reported in the literature, this type of production has educational and/or recreational functions [57][58][59][60].…”