Small scale agriculture in the highlands and lowlands. Comparative study between the Quebrada de Humahuaca and Florencio Varela

Abstract

This paper analyzes agriculture in two specific areas of Argentina, linked by a group of migrant families, from Andean highlands to the lowlands Buenos Aires’ periurban. We research small-scale production, in the methodological challenges to characterize it and local knowledge transmission. Methodology is based on the analysis of diverse censual sources and fieldwork from an anthropological perspective. As a result, the producer families were featured and productive - alimentary practices and knowledge were identified, as well as the articulations in the change of the socio-environmental conditions of the same in the migrant territory. It is concluded that small scale agriculture is an adequate category for this case and that migrant families consolidated productive - food knowledge from family farming in the migration process, which makes it possible to consider the existence of a type of food sovereignty from on consumption practices.