Agribusiness and fragmentation in the argentinean agro: From margination to an alternative proposalDossier: The place of the family in Argentina's agricultural production (1960-2008)

Abstract

Since 2008, the political discussion about export rights of cereals and oleaginous with the higher presence in the agrarian productive national process has put, inadvertently, on the general debate the argentinean "field" as an issue. This paper, then, pretends to be a contribution to a better knowledge of the accumulation dynamic present in the national agrarian sector because without its global appreciation its impossible to move forward in the construction of future scenarios. The present document has as main objectives: a) to discuss the heterogeneous profile that takes the productive and social structure of the contemporary argentinean agro, and b) to propose strategies of public policies tending to put the social actors, without distinction, in the capacity of make decisions about the organization of their territories. Finally, we consider that the access to the land property, the possibility of re-conversion, the capitalization, the relationship between local actors with direct and indirect incidence in the production, the relationship conditions with commercialization agents and the establishment or consolidation of regulation organisms are strategic elements for a public policy that looks for a structural transformation of the situations of subordination, which are not and will not be modify through a devaluation or an increase of international prices.