Local-global tensions in the agricultural activity of the south of Córdoba. Ways of expression of the territorial dialectic

Abstract

The Argentine Pampean region has been configured as an agro-export region for more than a century and a half. Since then, techniques, objects and actions that functionally shaped its currents economic characteristics has been incorporated. In previous researches linked to the analysis of the territorial processes associated with the current agricultural modernization, we have recognized processes of local-global tension that are expressed through actors inserted in the agricultural activity since past times. In this sense, the aim of the paper is to investigate some situations of local-global tension in the agricultural activity in the south of the province of Córdoba. The applied methodology is procedural and qualitative, supported by semi-structured interviews carried out with different actors liked to agricultural activity. We focus on three types of local-global tensions expressed by: agricultural service contractors, agro-commercial companies and agricultural cooperatives. We observe that each studied actor has to decode the current period data tending to the growing incorporation of science, techniques and information, in a framework of economic acceleration promoted by financialization, while renewing the territorial ties explained by every day and personal relationships. We conclude that the adaptation capacity to agricultural model changes define the actor characteristics, who must transform the services they offer subordinated to a global scale logic of which, partially and under important restrictions, they are territorial articulators.