Investigar el paisaje de la agricultura exportadora en el interior santafesino

Abstract

We present reflections on progress in identifying the changes, which would be attributed to recent changes in agricultural production system, in the landscape of some inland towns and villages in the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina. Along the study, landscape is understood as the visible dimension of a territory and its transformations. The analysis of the link between landscape and territory has been organized around the concepts of landscape levels and territorial scales. Landscape levels refer to a number of factors and perceptions that shape the main images of any landscape. Territorial scales refer to the ways in which the territories are organized as spaces of society. In the context of adaptation to the new agricultural production, the changes in the production process have involved contradictions for some places, such as the loss of regional functions and the dilution of its identities. The study of these joints between territorial scales and landscape levels reveals both insertions specific local space in the production system, as well as tensions between territorial transformation and configuration of local areas.