Factors Influencing the Sustainability of the Marketing of Mangrove Products in the Parish of San Gregorio, Muisne Canton, Esmeraldas
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This exploratory-descriptive study evaluated the factors that undermine the sustainability of mangrove product marketing in San Gregorio, Muisne, through structured interviews (N=10) and a literature review. The central finding is systematic inequality in the market. Marketing is predominantly indirect, allowing intermediaries to capture the lion’s share of the profit margin. This drastically reduces the price at the source and creates an unfair economic situation for the harvester, who bears the greatest risk of the activity. This economic vulnerability feeds into the fragility of the ecosystem. Although community management plays a regulatory role (fines for violations of the closed season), the lack of a solid social agreement and intense demand pressure lead to non-compliance with minimum size limits and illegal harvesting. These actions undermine the reproductive capacity of mangrove products and degrade the ecosystem. The activity is trapped in a cycle of low income and high environmental risk. The key to future sustainability lies in organizational strengthening that enables vertical integration (direct sales) and the use of technology to monitor and capitalize on the ecological value of the mangrove, transcending the current dependence on intermediaries.
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