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

La agricultura industrial ha generado pérdida de diversidad cultural y ello se expresa en la tecnología de producción. Las decisiones tecnológico-productivas de los productores familiares pampeanos, mediadas por sus saberes y convicciones operan como mecanismos de adaptación y resistencia y aportan a la resiliencia de los agroecosistemas. Con el objetivo de indagar sobre las decisiones productivas se realizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas a productores familiares del sudeste de Buenos Aires. Se encontró que las diversas lógicas, saberes y convicciones que median en las decisiones productivas de estos productores familiares, determinan una resistencia al modelo dominante y aportan a la resiliencia del sistema.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.Fil: Tamagno, Lía Nora. Facultad de Cs. Agrarias y Forestales UNLP