Reconversión productiva y mercado de trabajo: Reflexiones a partir de la experiencia de Somisa

Beccaria, Luis; Quintar, Aída

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“…In Latin America, the first documented agro-industrial PR processes show a forced nature of reconversion due to the low profitability of agricultural businesses. Such were the cases of Argentina and Mexico, whose productive matrices underwent abrupt changes in the eighties due to changes in local consumption patterns resulting from globalization (Beccaria and Quintar, 1995). These economies, larger and exposed to international exchange, experienced PR processes even without a defined direction.…”

Section: The Process Of Adopting Reconversion Strategiesmentioning

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Restructuring the Agricultural Production in the Tota Lake Basin (Colombia): Pros and Cons to Achieve the Change

Rodríguez-Robayo,

Pulido-Blanco,

Martínez-Camelo

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Trop Subtrop Agroecosyst

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Background. Moorlands are strategic ecosystems that provide regulation and provision of water, and that face serious effects due to agricultural activities. Productive reconversion (PR) is a mixed environmental, and economic strategy for managing change in agricultural systems towards sustainable agroecological models. Objective. To investigate the factors that favor and prevent the implementation of PR. Methodology. The paper analyzed 26 variables of the productive (14), socioeconomic (6) and environmental (6) dimensions of 172 producers of long onion and potato growers in the Tota lake basin, Tota-Bijagual-Mamapacha moorland, Colombia. Results. It was found that 44% of the variables are identified in favor and the remaining 56% against the PR, highlighting the advances in training, social organization, environmental awareness and disposition of the producers for the PR, but being forced to continue the activity due to the economic profitability. Implication. The economic profitability is against sustainability, it is related to the implementation of harmful practices such as the indiscriminate, inefficient, unplanned use of agro-inputs for fertilization and pest and disease management, with highly toxic pesticides, composting without maturity, which affect both human and ecosystem health. Conclusion. The main challenges are from the productive dimension, in which strategies are consolidated aimed at promoting: a) the adequate selection of quality seed, b) better soil management, c) the management of pests and diseases based on phytosanitary plans that integrate monitoring traps, preventive actions, and restrict the use of agro-inputs of chemical synthesis and d) promote the efficient use of water resources based on the strengthening of participatory agroclimatic monitoring networks.

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Section: The Process Of Adopting Reconversion Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Restructuring the Agricultural Production in the Tota Lake Basin (Colombia): Pros and Cons to Achieve the Change

Rodríguez-Robayo,

Pulido-Blanco,

Martínez-Camelo

et al. 2024

Trop Subtrop Agroecosyst

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“…In particular, many argue that informal and other casual labor relationships, such as temporary and part-time contractual arrangements, are intimately connected to the increased dominance and expansion of a global capitalist system (Lema 2001;Freije 2002;Olmedo and Murray 2002;Silveira and Matosas 2005). This perspective suggests both that policies of privatization and deregulation have resulted in a contraction in the availability of formal-sector jobs (Beccaria and Quintar 1995;Duryea and Székely 1998;Klein and Tokman 2000) and that trends toward labor flexibility increase the ability of employers to use nonstandard contracts, eventually resulting in increased informality (Barbieri 1996;Olmedo and Murray 2002). Standing (1989Standing ( , 1999 has referred to these changes as part of a "feminization" of the labor force, using this term to suggest that many of the changes associated with the informalization of labor globally are similar to those historically found to characterize women's labor, including low levels of employment and income security, decreased access to benefits and labor protection, and a decline in skilled jobs with the potential for upward mobility.…”

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“The Reality of Today Has Required Us to Change”: Negotiating Gender Through Informal Work in Contemporary Argentina

Whitson

2010

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Within Argentina and beyond, the characteristics of work are changing as work becomes increasingly informal and precarious. Drawing on interviews conducted with informal workers in Buenos Aires in 2002, this article analyzes the ways that the informalization of work during the economic crisis in Argentina shaped the interplay between normative and practiced manifestations of gender, including masculinity and femininity. I argue that although normative understandings of gender in Argentina remain largely uncomplicated by economic restructuring and crisis, the activity of informal work interacts very differently with the performances of these norms, depending on the class and sex of the worker. In particular, I demonstrate that among workers in the popular classes, the characteristics of informal work serve to mediate tensions resulting from women's engagement in paid work, while constituting an obstacle to men's performance of the hegemonic masculinity of the provider. Among middle-class workers, however, engaging in informal work does not result in the same types of tensions between gender norms and performances. I conclude by questioning the long-term nature of changes in gender relations resulting from this crisis and stressing the importance of intersectionality on understanding impacts of economic change. In addressing the question of how an increased dependence on informal work has affected gender relations in Argentina, this article seeks to contribute to wider discussions regarding the malleability of gender systems and the need to understand the effects of global restructuring on local gender relations, including performances of masculinity.

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“…This`latinamericanization' (Orsatti, 1991) of the Argentine economy continued into the 1990s, as rates of informal work began to rise again in response to flexibilization policies and continued labor-market deregulation, which resulted in decreased legislative protection for workers and the relaxing of contractual checks on part-time work forms (Barbieri, 1996;Cerrutti, 2000;Geldstein, 1997;Marshall, 1991;Olmedo and Murray, 2002). These policies, combined with the structuralization of joblessness in the latter part of the 1990s, effectively resulted in an increase in the rate of informal work during this period to approximately 45% to 55% of all employees (Auyero, 1999;Beccaria and Quintar, 1995;Lema, 2001;Lopez and Monza, 1995).…”

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Hidden Struggles: Spaces of Power and Resistance in Informal Work in Urban Argentina

Whitson

2007

Environ Plan A

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The year 2001 closed in Argentina with a public exhibition of the power of the people against a corrupt and ineffective government system: massive demonstrations took place in the Plaza de Mayo and were followed by the flight of then President Fernando De la Rua. These demonstrations marked the beginning of both an entrenchment of economic crisis as well as constant public expressions of discontent with the government in the form of cacerolazosöprimarily middle-class citizens demonstrating by banging pots and pansöand street closures by piquiteros, groups of unemployed workers.

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Reconversión productiva y mercado de trabajo: Reflexiones a partir de la experiencia de Somisa

Cited by 6 publications

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Restructuring the Agricultural Production in the Tota Lake Basin (Colombia): Pros and Cons to Achieve the Change

Restructuring the Agricultural Production in the Tota Lake Basin (Colombia): Pros and Cons to Achieve the Change

“The Reality of Today Has Required Us to Change”: Negotiating Gender Through Informal Work in Contemporary Argentina

Hidden Struggles: Spaces of Power and Resistance in Informal Work in Urban Argentina

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