Abstract

CHAMPREDONDE, Marcelo  and  ALBALADEJO, Christophe. Inserción territorial local de la ganadería vacuna y artificialización de los sistemas de producción en el sudoeste pampeano. Pampa [online]. 2011, n.7, suppl.1, pp.113-142. ISSN 2314-0208.

This paper aims at analyzing relationships between artificialization (in supply feeding) of cattle feeding and the local social capital. Local social capital is here reinterpreted, since Social Geography, through the concept of territorial insertion of farming activity. This local insertion develops in three dimensions of human activity: production (i.e. economic sphere), livelihood (private sphere) and participation (public sphere). Presently the main process of cattle breeding transformation in the South West area of Buenos Aires Province is the artificialization and complexification of cattle feeding. Ten cases studies of farms representing diverse combinations of artificialization and complexification are analyzed with the local territorial insertion concept. It shows us clearly that most locally inserted systems are not necessarily the less artificialized ones. Nevertheless the type of combination or contradictions between the three dimensions of local territorial insertion is strongly in relation with forms of artificialization and complexification of animal nutrition. This gives indications to assess the sustainability of production systems: artificialization should correspond to a form of strong local insertion in order to be sustainable.

Keywords : Territorial changes; Territorial insertion; Cattle breeding; Animal nutrition.