ABSTRACT
This chapter uses Mercado Bonpland, a small market organised by many self-managed organisations in Buenos Aires, as a focus for how alternative economic practices such as economic solidarity, alternative consumption, production and exchange take place. It argues that the creation of alternative economy spaces in Buenos Aires is established through rural–urban networks of producers and consumers. Mercado Bonpland's producers organise around agroecological production conditions as well as solidarity economic practices. It is important to distinguish between production networks organised around 'agroecological principles' from 'organic production'. Whilst Titrayju demonstrates the history of agroecological networks and organising, Mercado Bonpland is also a result of the assembly organising from 2001 in Argentina. Mercado Bonpland and the networks of autogestive projects that it relies on are organised through different scales and varying actors, but both are connected through the exchange of goods, knowledge and experience, amongst other things.
