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In the past, agricultural work needed a sizeable workforce, but that was not a problem as families were much larger than they are today. Some of the jobs required more people than those available at the homestead and therefore helping your neighbours was necessary and the favour would be repaid in the same way. That helped to maintain the neighbourhood structure, that has gradually fragmented and what could be called as the individualism of each homestead has increasingly gained in importance. The drop in the number of workers and that individualism is linked to increasingly more machinery being brought into play to a certain extent.

En tiempos pasados la estrategia productiva se basaba en la diversidad: de cultivos, de variedades de cada cultivo, de animales criados, etc. Hoy en día ha crecido notablemente la especialización, no solo en cuanto a los productos cultivados sino incluso en las técnicas y maquinarias empleadas. Esto supone un alejamiento progresivo de la naturaleza, donde prima la biodiversidad. La especialización y la reducción de la diversidad generan una especie de “monocultivo de las ideas”, dificultando la posibilidad de apreciar nuevos enfoques y formas de producción distintas.