Feedback from the agribusiness model. Diet, power and climate change in the Pampas (1960-2008)
The uses of the territory promoted by the agribusiness model affect the quality of the food obtained and the sustainability of the environment. Based on a contemporary sociological approach, this work proposes to characterize and analyze a rationality where monoculture degrades the diet and simplifi...
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| description | The uses of the territory promoted by the agribusiness model affect the quality of the food obtained and the sustainability of the environment. Based on a contemporary sociological approach, this work proposes to characterize and analyze a rationality where monoculture degrades the diet and simplifies ecosystems. It is a productive model that distances producers from consumers, increasing both the energy needed to produce a calorie of food and that consumed in processing raw materials so that they can extend their useful life. The technical transformations of the Green Revolution -at the beginning of the 1960s- are the starting point of a process that increases productivity at the expense of biodiversity. This consolidates the industrialization of agriculture based on the architectural character of power, resulting in foods with lower nutritional quality that tend to malnutrition of the population. Agribusiness is part of this process, where the problems generated become inputs to continue functioning and allow, in turn, to explain the nexus diet, power and climate change. |
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| spelling | oai:ojs.revistas.unc.edu.ar:article-234352019-06-20T13:16:30Z Feedback from the agribusiness model. Diet, power and climate change in the Pampas (1960-2008) La retroalimentación del modelo de agronegocios. Dieta, poder y cambio climático en el agro pampeano (1960-2008) Blacha, Luis Ernesto diet power territory food agrobusiness dieta poder territorio alimentos agronegocios The uses of the territory promoted by the agribusiness model affect the quality of the food obtained and the sustainability of the environment. Based on a contemporary sociological approach, this work proposes to characterize and analyze a rationality where monoculture degrades the diet and simplifies ecosystems. It is a productive model that distances producers from consumers, increasing both the energy needed to produce a calorie of food and that consumed in processing raw materials so that they can extend their useful life. The technical transformations of the Green Revolution -at the beginning of the 1960s- are the starting point of a process that increases productivity at the expense of biodiversity. This consolidates the industrialization of agriculture based on the architectural character of power, resulting in foods with lower nutritional quality that tend to malnutrition of the population. Agribusiness is part of this process, where the problems generated become inputs to continue functioning and allow, in turn, to explain the nexus diet, power and climate change. Los usos del territorio que promueve el modelo de agronegocios inciden en la calidad de los alimentos obtenidos y en la sustentabilidad del ambiente. A partir de un enfoque sociológico contemporáneo, este trabajo se propone caracterizar y analizar una racionalidad donde el monocultivo degrada la dieta y simplifica los ecosistemas. Se trata de un modelo productivo que distancia a productores de consumidores, incrementando tanto la energía necesaria para producir una caloría de alimento como aquella que se consume en procesar las materias primas para que puedan extender su vida útil. Las transformaciones técnicas de la Revolución Verde –a comienzos de la década de 1960– son el punto de partida de un proceso que incrementa su productividad a expensas de la biodiversidad. Se consolida así la industrialización de la agricultura fundamentada en el carácter arquitectónico del poder, que resulta en alimentos con menor calidad nutricional que tienden a la malnutrición de la población. Los agronegocios son parte de este proceso, donde los problemas generados se convierten en insumos para seguir funcionando y permiten, a su vez, explicar el nexo dieta, poder y cambio climático. Centro de Estudios Avanzados 2019-02-11 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/restudios/article/view/23435 10.31050/re.v0i41.23435 Estudios digital; Núm. 41 (2019): Capitalismo y cuestión agraria; 109-128 1852-1568 0328-185X 10.31050/re.v0i41 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/restudios/article/view/23435/23171 Derechos de autor 2019 Estudios digital |
| spellingShingle | diet power territory food agrobusiness dieta poder territorio alimentos agronegocios Blacha, Luis Ernesto Feedback from the agribusiness model. Diet, power and climate change in the Pampas (1960-2008) |
| title | Feedback from the agribusiness model. Diet, power and climate change in the Pampas (1960-2008) |
| title_alt | La retroalimentación del modelo de agronegocios. Dieta, poder y cambio climático en el agro pampeano (1960-2008) |
| title_full | Feedback from the agribusiness model. Diet, power and climate change in the Pampas (1960-2008) |
| title_fullStr | Feedback from the agribusiness model. Diet, power and climate change in the Pampas (1960-2008) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Feedback from the agribusiness model. Diet, power and climate change in the Pampas (1960-2008) |
| title_short | Feedback from the agribusiness model. Diet, power and climate change in the Pampas (1960-2008) |
| title_sort | feedback from the agribusiness model diet power and climate change in the pampas 1960 2008 |
| topic | diet power territory food agrobusiness dieta poder territorio alimentos agronegocios |
| topic_facet | diet power territory food agrobusiness dieta poder territorio alimentos agronegocios |
| url | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/restudios/article/view/23435 |
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