Traveling the development way: between absences and envies

Through a re-created conversation about and with the women of the Asociacion de Mujeres Emprendedoras de Guatavita (AMEG) the purpose of this article is to show how the women of AMEG find ways of traveling the development way. This implies facing, accepting, adapting, hiding and subverting the technoscientific assumptions and the international regulations of the dairy sector in Colombia. This traveling occurs between synergistic productive forms in which reciprocity, know how, change and envy are combined. Envy becomes a way of regulating accumulation to maintain reciprocity and, at the same time, is an explanation for the failures of the projects that reach the association.