The place of production and consumption in short circuits

Abstract

The disregard and disinterest that human elements and localities have received in recent times stems from the intense centrality attributed to the world financial system, a strategy that involves all intentions in favor of the insatiable eagerness for profit. In this sense, the present study has as objective to discuss the importance that the short circuits of production and consumption present to the local scale, favoring the socioeconomic dynamization of places previously isolated financially. This discussion was based on bibliographical research, based on materials already published on this subject, a theoretical basis that give more validity to the reflections listed here. In the course of the research, it was evident that the complexity of the existing links in the local scale are the main responsible for the realization and consolidation of the short circuits of production and consumption, a particularity that requires of its actors and social authors a singular understanding of their respective territorialities . Finally, the attempt here was not to de-characterize the importance of long circuits of production and consumption, but only to discuss the importance of short circuits in the social emancipation of the subjects and socioeconomic development of the places, a social structuring that considers and allows the balanced existence of these two types of production and consumption circuits.