La agricultura familiar sostenible en sistemas minifundistas. Estudio de casos comparados en Galicia e Irlanda
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Centro de Estudios sobre la Despoblación y Desarrollo de Áreas Rurales
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En este artículo presentamos los resultados de un estudio económico, social y cultural de las
explotaciones familiares agroganaderas a partir de casos gallegos e irlandeses. La investigación se centró, fundamentalmente,
en la elaboración y análisis de los resultados de una encuesta especializada que trató sobre
las características sociales, económicas, tecnológicas y culturales de las familias agrarias productoras de leche
localizadas en el entorno de los municipios noroccidentales de Galicia y en el sector noroccidental del Condado
de Cork en Irlanda. En los dos casos, en mayor o menor medida, se evidencia el cambio social y el proceso de
transformación agraria en el área de influencia de las cooperativas lecheras investigadas. Las conclusiones nos
permiten afirmar que el mundo rural en Galicia no puede caminar inexorablemente hacia la concentración
parcelaria masiva y hacia el desarrollo agrario e industrial ilimitado. No podemos sustituir la práctica cultural
minifundista por la implantación de un “latifundio inventado” ajeno a la realidad social, económica y cultural
de Galicia. La pluriactividad de las familias minifundistas gallegas es una práctica cultural heredada que debemos
preservar. En el campo irlandés dicha práctica cultural heredada ha desaparecido y, hoy en día, hay intentos
de recuperar el “estilo de vida” asociado a la agricultura familiar tradicional como fórmula para evitar la
emigración y fijar la población en el medio rural
This essay presents the results of an economic, social and cultural study of family farms based on Galician and Irish cases. We have conducted a specialized survey on the social, economic, technological and cultural characteristics of milk-producing agricultural families located around the North-Western municipalities of Galicia as well as in the North-Western area of the County of Cork in Ireland. The essay is based on an analysis of the main results. To a higher or lesser extent, social change and agricultural transformation can be seen in both cases in the influence area of the milk cooperatives under study. The conclusions allow us to state that rural society in Galicia should not necessarily move towards massive consolidation of fragmented holdings and unbound agricultural and industrial development. Cultural smallholding practices should not be replaced by a “made-up large state” which is alien to the social, economic and cultural reality of Galicia. The Galician smallholding families’ multiactivity is an inherited cultural practice to be preserved. On the Irish countryside, this inherited cultural practice has dissapeared and attempts are now being made to recover the “life style” associated to traditional family farming as a means to avoid emigration and fix population in rural areas
This essay presents the results of an economic, social and cultural study of family farms based on Galician and Irish cases. We have conducted a specialized survey on the social, economic, technological and cultural characteristics of milk-producing agricultural families located around the North-Western municipalities of Galicia as well as in the North-Western area of the County of Cork in Ireland. The essay is based on an analysis of the main results. To a higher or lesser extent, social change and agricultural transformation can be seen in both cases in the influence area of the milk cooperatives under study. The conclusions allow us to state that rural society in Galicia should not necessarily move towards massive consolidation of fragmented holdings and unbound agricultural and industrial development. Cultural smallholding practices should not be replaced by a “made-up large state” which is alien to the social, economic and cultural reality of Galicia. The Galician smallholding families’ multiactivity is an inherited cultural practice to be preserved. On the Irish countryside, this inherited cultural practice has dissapeared and attempts are now being made to recover the “life style” associated to traditional family farming as a means to avoid emigration and fix population in rural areas
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Sexto, C. F., Arce, X. C. M., Vázquez, Y. G., & Quintá, F. X. A. (2007). La agricultura familiar sostenible en sistemas minifundistas. Estudio de casos comparados en Galicia e Irlanda. AGER. Revista de Estudios sobre despoblación y desarrollo rural, (6), 101-128
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