Abstract

MARTINEZ, Lisandro Esteban. The future of the agri-food system of the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires: a territorial prospective exercise. Estudios Socioterritoriales [online]. 2020, vol.27, pp.28-28. ISSN 1853-4392.  http://dx.doi.org/10.37838/unicen/est.27-045.

A team of professionals belonging to the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA), carried out an exploratory exercise of territorial prospective for the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires (RMBA) with a focus on food production and consumption and the metropolitan territory where they are placed. In what was defined as a metropolitan agrifood system (SAM), possible future scenarios were built for it. Counting INTA with more than a decade of comprehensive approach to urban and peri-urban agriculture in the region, knowledge of the critical mass of professionals who work there allowed us to advance in the characterization of the dynamics of a highly complex system. Prospective studies of this type, where plausible future scenarios are constructed and stylized, are an input of great importance for the design and definition of public policies.

Keywords : Territorial prospective; Agri-food systems; Urban and peri-urban agriculture; Public policies.

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