Promotion of Associativism for Family Production in Argentina and Uruguay (2003-2019)

In both Argentina and Uruguay, the agricultural policy of the progressive governments has evidenced two facets: a sustained stimulus to the expansion of agribusiness and a series of compensatory policies for family production and rural wage earners. Within this set, the study focuses on policies to promote associativism in family farming. In particular, it reconstructs the objectives, recipients, and implementation strategies in the territory of rural development programs. The quantitative impact that these programs had on the construction of the network of associations of family producers is also preliminarily. The work is part of agrarian history in a comparative key. It allows a narration that advances in the recognition of the general tendencies that the progressive governments of both sides of the Rio de la Plata evidenced for the attention of the most vulnerable sectors of the agrarian structure, based on the complexity of the political-institutional framework and the rural world of each one of the countries involved.