Historia Agraria número 51 (agosto 2010)http://hdl.handle.net/10234/1487102024-03-28T08:41:41Z2024-03-28T08:41:41Z¿Una agriculturización insostenible? La provincia del Chaco, Argentina (1980-2008)Zarrilli, Adriánhttp://hdl.handle.net/10234/1644192019-11-18T18:33:11Z2010-08-01T00:00:00Z¿Una agriculturización insostenible? La provincia del Chaco, Argentina (1980-2008)
Zarrilli, Adrián
In Argentine agriculture, the process of «agriculturization” is associated with changes in technology, expansion of the agricultural frontier to the extra-Pampean regions, and increasing monocultures. Until the late 1930s, agricultural expansion was mainly based on expanding the agricultural frontier by occupying new lands, over 30% of total agricultural land and livestock in the humid pampas. Since the 1960s, agriculturization has been achieved at the expense of areas devoted to ranching, industrial crops, and forest lands. In the 1990s, land concentration and intensification 01' agriculture greatly accelerated, both in the pampas and in extra-Pampean regions (Northwest and Northeast). Between 1988 and 2002 an intense process of concentration of land ownership, accompanied by further agricultural conversion to soybean, took place too. The loss of native forest resources in Argentina is directly related to the expansion of the agricultural frontier. This article explains: 1) the deforestation/ agricultural frontier expansion in Argentina, 2) the environmental changes caused by this process, 3) actions from social actors involved in this process.
2010-08-01T00:00:00ZRepoblaciones, paisaje forestal y desarrollo industrial en el País Vasco atlántico (1940-1975)Uriarte, Rafaelhttp://hdl.handle.net/10234/1644182019-11-18T18:32:21Z2010-08-01T00:00:00ZRepoblaciones, paisaje forestal y desarrollo industrial en el País Vasco atlántico (1940-1975)
Uriarte, Rafael
The aim of this article is to analyze the transformation of forest landscape in the Atlantic Basque Country and the complex factors and actors who participated in that process during Francoism (1939-1975).With a high predominance of private property, reforestation was largely a private initiative. Although the sources consulted come mainly from different public administrations involved in woodlands management, the preponderance of the particular owner has allowed us to analyse circumstances and mechanisms often ignored when dealing exclusively with public forest and its man-agreement. The intensive reforestation, the introduction of new species, a new institutional framework, and changes in the productive orientation of woodlands, within a context of strong industrial growth and rural decline, have changed dramatically both, the landscape and the environment, as well as the character of the industry and forest uses.
2010-08-01T00:00:00ZViolencia y sociedad rural. LaTierra de Campos palentina (1917-1923)Redondo Cardeñoso, Jesús-Ángelhttp://hdl.handle.net/10234/1644172021-06-07T17:55:17Z2010-08-01T00:00:00ZViolencia y sociedad rural. LaTierra de Campos palentina (1917-1923)
Redondo Cardeñoso, Jesús-Ángel
In this article) we study the violence practiced by Tierra de Campos' peasants in Palencia (a Castilian province) between 1917 and 1923) a booming period in political and socio-labour disputes within the Spanish rural society. We focus on the interpersonal and everyday violence) actions reported in the criminal sentences of the provincial court and in the provincial press. Also) features of the execution (causes) places and times in which criminal actions were committed) and of executors (sex, age, profession, and neighbourhood) have been analyzed. Finally) a reflection on the presence and meaning of weapons in the region is accomplished. Our objective is to show that peasant violence (the most common and bloody one) was incorporated into daily relationships within the small rural communities) in which ordinary cultural values and mental beliefs of the Old Regime, such as honour and reputation, were still very important.
2010-08-01T00:00:00ZCostumbre y coacción social. La formación del arrendamiento rústico valenciano (1880-1940)Modesto Alapont, José Ramónhttp://hdl.handle.net/10234/1644162022-10-21T12:25:37Z2010-08-01T00:00:00ZCostumbre y coacción social. La formación del arrendamiento rústico valenciano (1880-1940)
Modesto Alapont, José Ramón
During the first decades of the 20th century) a big amount of irrigated lands in L'Horta de Valencia (Spain) was transferred from the middleclass rentier to the little farmer peasants, who became owners of those lands they had been cultivating as tenants up to that moment This article describes the factors accounting for this process: the relationships between landlords and tenants) and the real functioning of fixed-rent tenancy in the area) taking into account the economic evolution of the region. The stability of the tenants in their parcels was an important factor for a long time. They used to maintain a moderate rent so as to encourage peasants to cultivate properly and introduce improvements, and the consolidation of new crops were decisive too. However, the ability of tenants to gather around some standards, established as a custom and very advantageous for them, was the factor that eroded definitely the landlords' control over the lands. Between the latest 19th and the earliest 20th century decades) through different ways of coercing, tenants were able to impose their interests over the rights of property established by the law.
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