Restoring the Food Systems Resilience Through the Dialogue of Knowledge: A Case Study from Mexico

Abstract Global economic dynamics have marginalized many territories, and these have attributes that can generate development possibilities in the context of their territorial capacities. Asymmetries within and outside the territories can be overcome if there is an exchange of ideas between social actors, i.e. a dialogue of knowledge. Based on this logic, this study aims to value the dialogue of knowledge as a dynamic tool of institutional resilience to promote development in its different expressions. Institutional resilience can be understood as the adaptive capacity of a system of beliefs, values and traditions in a specific territory to generate changes driven by historically inherited cultural expressions, which in most cases creates environments that produce individual and collective well-being. It is concluded that the dialogue of knowledge is a tool capable of promoting new knowledge among its participants and promoting development in the territories, allowing for a recovery of resilient food systems.