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The process to modernise agricultural activity has rather created a mirage. The bottom line was that that traditional ways of working were obsolete and that more “competitive” ones were required. Nobody seemed to grasp that rural society based its survival strategy on neighbourhood solidarity and that competitiveness was therefore beyond its mindset. In the best of cases, the outcome was towns where the local residents turned their back on agriculture, where one farmer would lease or buy up the others’ land and awash with machinery, and sometimes debts, produce as much or more than the others had previously produced altogether. This progressively more industrialised and intensive model was increasingly mentally outside the grasp of the local residents and there was always uncertainty about the future of their survival as a producer.

Hoy el conocimiento aplicado a la agricultura es de naturaleza técnicaThe know-how applied to agriculture is now technical. Pero no debemos olvidar que dicho conocimiento a veces se halla promovido por intereses comerciales más o menos discretos que lo que pretenden es abrir nuevas formas de negocioYet we must not forget that that knowledge is sometimes driven by more or less discrete commercial interests that seek to open up new business channels. Los agricultores que se oponen a los modelos intensivos e industrializados no solo beben de los saberes tradicionales localesThe farmers that resist the industrialised and intensive models do not only rely on local traditional knowledge. La misma red de información mundial que permite el trasiego de las técnicas punteras de la agroindustria posibilita el acceso a múltiples conocimientos y experiencias campesinas ligadas a la agricultura familiarThe same global information network that allows the dissemination of cutting-edge techniques of the agribusiness also provides access to different farming expertise and experiences linked to family-run agriculture.

Los productores rurales sufrieron tempranamente los efectos de la globalización económica y de la ruptura de los mercados locales que conllevó. De ahí que no sea extraño que su respuesta de oposición haya sido global, pero a diferencia de la tendencia uniformadora de los mercados económicos y la agroindustria, la de aquellos aspira al respeto de la diversidad de cultivos y culturas.

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