Changing Patterns in Family Farming: The Case of the Pampa Region, Argentina

Gras, Carla

doi:10.1111/j.1471-0366.2009.00215.x

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“…This means that we need to identify the productive effects of neoliberalization and understand it as a process that not only destroyed the social fabric, but also benefitted certain social actors ( e.g. medium to large agribusiness in Argentina, see Gras 2009) and constructed a political common sense that motivated the massive agribusiness mobilization in 2008. Business mobilization tends to be more effective when their collective actions look like grassroots campaigns (Walker and Rea 2014). Argentine agribusinesses' capacity to mobilize in large numbers should prompt us to pay closer attention to how a "neoliberal reason" is constructed by think tanks and foundations (Peck 2010), but also to identify the ways in which neoliberal ideas, policies, and values are transmitted and adopted by a variety of actors beyond the business community.…”

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Popular Demobilization, Agribusiness Mobilization, and the Agrarian Boom in Post-Neoliberal Argentina

Lapegna¹

2015

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Popular Demobilization, Agribusiness Mobilization, and the Agrarian Boom in Post-Neoliberal Argentina

Lapegna¹

2015

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“…In the early 1990s, many family farmers tried to adapt to the new neoliberal scenario by taking on debt to expand their scale of production. The downward trend of commodity prices in the mid‐1990s forced many of them to sell their land after going bankrupt (Gras, , p. 351). For other actors, however, this scenario presented an opportunity.…”

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The political economy of the agro‐export boom under the Kirchners: Hegemony and passive revolution in Argentina

Lapegna

2017

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Since the mid‐1990s, the economy and politics of Argentina have been closely intertwined with the expansion of agro‐exports—a process initiated with neoliberalization and continued under “post‐neoliberal” governments. The administrations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner are among the left‐of‐centre, neo‐developmental governments that were elected to power in Latin America in recent decades. This paper engages Gramsci's concepts of passive revolution and hegemony to analyse the political economy of the agrarian boom in Argentina, focusing on the frictions and contradictions of this national‐popular project. I inspect the political economy of the agro‐export boom, scrutinizing the political alliances and conflicts of the Kirchner governments, and the dilemmas that they have created for peasant movements. Between 2003 and 2015, peasant organizations supported the Kirchners as they discursively confronted Argentine agribusiness. Yet the neo‐developmental approach of their administrations did little to address the socio‐environmental impacts of the agro‐export boom and the glaring material inequalities of rural Argentina, and instead supported authoritarian governors and favoured global agribusiness corporations.

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“…Sin embargo, el debate académico se ha concentrado principalmente en la región pampeana y ha tenido como preocupación central los cambios que ha experimentado la explotación familiar capitalizada (Tipo 1 y Tipo 2) en el marco de los procesos de transformación agraria reciente (Gras, 2009;Graciano y Lázzaro, 2007;Cloquell, Propersi, Preda y De Nicola, 2007; Craviotti y Gras, 2006;López y Prividera, 2011;Ramilo y Prividera, 2013). Una cuestión clave fue, por ejemplo, que la expansión de la producción de soja en grandes extensiones hizo que muchos chacareros o agricultores familiares dejen de producir para comenzar a alquilar sus tierras.…”

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Censos Y Registros De La Agricultura Familiar En Argentina: Esfuerzos Para Su Cuantificación

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2014

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CONTRA-PUNTOResumen Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar la forma en que se instalan los debates en torno a la agricultura familiar en la Argentina de los últimos años. El interés por conceptualizarla está presente en el ámbi-to académico, técnico y político. Por otra parte, el artículo intenta mostrar las dificultades de cuantificación en relación con la heterogeneidad espacial y la diversidad de actores que integran la agricultura familiar en el país. Para ello, se realizará una breve comparación entre la región más rica de Argentina (la pampeana) y una de las regiones más pobres (el noroeste). Asimismo, se aborda los resultados del RENAF (Registro Nacional de la Agricultura Familiar) en la provincia de Santiago del Estero a los efectos de presentar ciertas líneas metodológicas tendientes a una mejor conceptualización del sector.Palabras clave: agricultura familiar; cuantificación; RENAF (Registro de la Agricultura Familiar); Argentina. AbstractThis paper aims to analyze the debates about family farming in Argentina during the last years, particularly the need to quantify and characterize the sector. The interest in conceptualization can be found in the academic, technical and politic fields. The article tries to show the spatial heterogeneity and diversity of actors of family farming. Therefore, it includes a brief comparison between the richest region of Argentina (The Pampas) and one of the poorest regions (Northwest). In relation to this, the results of the RENAF (National Registry of Family Farming) in the province of Santiago del Estero are used to characterize the sector and present certain methodological lines aimed at a better conceptualization.

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Changing Patterns in Family Farming: The Case of the Pampa Region, Argentina

Cited by 46 publications

References 12 publications

Popular Demobilization, Agribusiness Mobilization, and the Agrarian Boom in Post-Neoliberal Argentina

Popular Demobilization, Agribusiness Mobilization, and the Agrarian Boom in Post-Neoliberal Argentina

The political economy of the agro‐export boom under the Kirchners: Hegemony and passive revolution in Argentina

Censos Y Registros De La Agricultura Familiar En Argentina: Esfuerzos Para Su Cuantificación

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