Resistance strategies of family farmers facing agribusiness extension in Uruguay

Stratégies de résistance des agriculteurs familiaux face à l’avancée de l’agriculture capitaliste en Uruguay

Virginia Rossi, Veronica Filardo and Eduardo Chia
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Virginia Rossi: UDELAR - Universidad de la República [Montevideo]
Veronica Filardo: UDELAR - Universidad de la República [Montevideo]
Eduardo Chia: UMR Innovation - Innovation et Développement dans l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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Abstract: The resistance of family farmers facing agribusiness extension is reflected in unique economic, social and technical practices and strategies, which give them specific reproductive capacities. Our main hypothesis is that the action models behind the resistance of family farmers depend on the context of their situations, their projects and the values they associate with the farming profession and are historically located and collectively produced. We have developed a comprehensive approach and mobilized the concept of habitus to identify and study the practices and strategies of resistance. From economic, symbolic, educational and inheritance macro-practices (fields) we have identified three types of resistance: "Preserve the autonomy of the peasant family", "Transmitting the family legacy", "Staying in the social network". The habitus allows family farmers to build and maintain a "peasant" family logic and define the "profession" of the farmer. This last dimension remains to be further explored.

Keywords: Social anthropology; Family farming; Livelihood; Peasant habitus; Anthropologie sociale; Agriculture familiale; Moyen de survie; Habitus paysan; Uruguay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Published in Cahiers Agricultures, 2020, 29, pp.1-9. ⟨10.1051/cagri/2020014⟩

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DOI: 10.1051/cagri/2020014

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