The potential of family agriculture and protected spaces: guidelines for public policies design

Abstract

Thre are a quantity of family expoitations that still stay and resist to disappear, unfolding a variety and new productive, social and cultural strategies. Preciselly the aim of this paper is to introduce the experiences of two family exploitations in very different contexts: one is located in Banda department, Santiago del Estero province and the other one is located in Saladillo, Buenos Aiires province, where the diversity and regularity of adopted strategies avoid these families to resist, stay and develop alternative strategies to the prevailing model. The unfolding of productive, ecologic and social potential of family agriculture, requieres of the construction of protected spaces. Thus, protected spaces are introduced as an argument of family agriculture potential and its ability to generate an alternative rural development where the small production has an active role in this construction of a new design. However, nowadays, protected spaces are just an hypothesis and a declaration of posibilities about the way in that agrarian world could structure taking as its base the small production. The sistematizatión of experiences starts to show ways and posible guidelines for this construction