INVESTIGADORES
ABRAHAM Elena Maria
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Tierras secas, desertificación y factores macroeconómicos de definición de políticas públicas en el centro oeste de Argentina: el caso de la provincia de Mendoza
Autor/es:
ABRAHAM, E.; TORRES, L.
Lugar:
Bonn
Reunión:
Conferencia; UNCCD 2nd Scientific Conference; 2013
Institución organizadora:
UNCCD Secretariat
Resumen:
Argentina?s central west encompasses a vast dryland territory, organized on the basis of a great contradiction: the confrontation between oasis and rainfed area (desert lands with no irrigation). Within a territory under conditions of aridity with different desertification levels, Mendoza is a paradigmatic case. The development model fostered at the end of the XIX century was based on the supremacy of strategic resources: water and soil. A mode of regional development reliant on irrigated lands was supported there from to consolidate the wine exporting model. Nowadays, Mendoza?s non-irrigated lands and their people are marginal not merely by the effect of a restrictive environment but also by the combined action of a fragile environment and the weightier social, political and economic forces that have banished them to the system?s margins. Analysis of the region?s history informs that non-irrigated spaces provided both strategic natural resources for development of irrigated areas and labour to start production activities. Simultaneously, non-irrigated lands were restricted in their right to access strategic resources for their social reproduction: water, land and identity. This report delves further into the analysis of the dynamics of territory construction whereby some territories stand as central while others are relegated to marginal positions. The analysis goes deeper into a case study with signs of a serious process of territory impoverishment, social exclusion and progress of desertification and poverty, and presents the efforts to encourage a rural development strategy for non-irrigated drylands that allows full inclusion of these territories and actors as rights-bearing subjects.