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FERNANDEZ, Diego. An Analysis of Different Persistence Strategies of the «chacareras» Farms in the Argentinean Pampas. Agrociencia Uruguay [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.2, pp.105-115. ISSN 1510-0839.

During the last 25 years, important changes took place in the «pampas» agriculture, changes that led to sharp increases inharvests. The ‘agriculturization’, the huge increase in agrochemicals consumption, the use of transgenic seeds, new forms ofbusiness organization, and the Copernican revolution in terms of sowing techniques are some of the milestones of thatevolution. These phenomena attracted great academic interest, being that other changes -also of a major importance- havebeen relatively overshadowed, including the process of productive concentration that led to a crisis of «chacareras» productionunits. In a scenario in which the productive scales were redefined, the technological change made more expensive thefinancing of agricultural campaigns and public policies were indifferent or even harmful to family production, it is necessary toexplain the reasons for the disappearance of farms quantity was not even greater. This paper analyzes what constitutes typicalsurvival strategies of these economic agents: undervalue their own resources, part-time farming, outsourcing as a defensivestrategy. The chosen method is the econometric testing, using the databases at the departmental level of the last AgriculturalCensus.

Palabras clave : family farming; economic concentration; part time farming; outsourcing.

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