| Summary: | This article analyzes the incidence of social networks in the beginning of agricultural micro enterprises as a work alternative, in face of the difficulties experienced at the labor market. It considers these networks from two different points of view: as a way of access to different goods and services, and as mechanisms of identity construction. It examines the content of these relationships (around certain axes such as cooperation, trust and conflict), as well as their symmetric /asymmetric character, taking into account (possible) disparities of resources among those involved in them. It employs a methodological strategy that combines quantitative and qualitative sources and techniques of analysis, although it gives emphasis to the latter. For these purposes interviews with qualified informants at the national level linked to different support programs were carried out, as well as interviews with vulnerable people that began self-employed activities in agriculture, and with others that abandoned them after initiated, and to key informants belonging to different types of organizations at the local level.
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