The aim of this study is to recognize the contributions that family farming makes over the resilience of rural productive systems. Through a case study in family farming units in conjunction with Participatory Rural Appraisal techniques carried out with the members of the association of future Colombian farmers, located in the Combeima Canyon of Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia, and using for the analysis the theoretical framework of productive systems multifunctionality in five of its dimensions: social, ecological, productive, economic and cultural; it has been found that family economy systems without a deep-rooted cultural identity for the land, but with productive practices without deterioration of the land and with a strong network family articulated to the productive process, it has allowed families to negotiate between local markets and wholesale markets and in difficult times subsist on their plot. It was concluded that the intricate network of social, ecological, productive and cultural interrelations, is which allows the resilience of these systems, and depending on the conditions of each productive family nucleus, their own productive opportunities are generated that has allowed them to subsist throughout this years.