Barter market and food security in the Acora and Ilave districts of Puno-Peru: Period 2015-2017

Abstract

Some families located in poor sectors do not have sufficient monetary resources for survival, therefore, bartering has been practiced since ancient times and continues to be practiced as a way of giving and receiving some good or service that they lack; exchange one object for another out of necessity without the intervention of money. Therefore, this study sought to show how bartering is practiced more frequently as a means of subsistence to poverty to cover the unsatisfied demand, basically for food. The methodological procedure consisted in the application of a survey to the families that barter in the districts of Acora and Ilave, between the months of December 2015 to December 2017 in times of agricultural campaign; the information collected was processed with SPSS. The results show that barter is fully valid for the exchange of available objects with other goods required to guarantee food security in which money does not intervene. Process that is also called a swap, give what is yours (property) to receive other goods equivalent to the good given. In ancient times, the exchange of raw materials for crafts or food products was used more. The advantage was that a stock of products was maintained to promote other marketing channels. It is concluded that despite the persistence of bartering with favorable results, it was not always possible to find the other goods sought, as well as the equivalence of the goods, they do not always calculate the real value of the good in question of being exchanged, of which there is a risk to lose value.