Knowledge and productive-technological decisions in the pampean family farming: A mechanism of resistance to the model of industrial agriculture

Abstract

Industrial agriculture has generated changes that mean a significant loss of cultural diversity and this is expressed in production technology. Productive decisions were analyzed in family farms in the southeast of the province of Buenos Aires in order to revalue practices and knowledge as a basis for the design of agro-ecological management strategies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, in-depth research on production technology. Our results suggest that the diverse logics, knowledge and convictions that mediate the productive decisions of these producers, determine a resistance to the dominant model and contribute to the resilience of the system.