CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

The recent agricultural model developed in Argentina, centered on an extractive logic of natural assets and based on the use of non-renewable resources, gave clear evidence of its lack of sustainability, consolidating itself as a very profitable practice in the short term but extremely irresponsible with current and future generations.Faced with this situation and as an alternative, agroecology, although it still has many problems to solve, seems to have solved several others, such as less dependence on external inputs, sustaining productivity and minimal impact on the environment. In this sense, the emerging social problem of the use of pesticides in Argentina can be a starting point to promote organic agriculture in these areas, bring the producer closer to the consumer and begin to make agroecology visible, placing more products in local markets .Many authors coincide in pointing out that the predominant agricultural model in Argentina is embedded in an extractivist logic, increasingly moving away from the concept of ?sustainability?, promoted by the United Nations. The consolidation of this model seems to have contributed, on the one hand, to the process of environmental deterioration, by being practiced under a logic of overexploitation of natural assets, and, on the other, to an increasing concentration of land and profits that they generate.The objective of this work will be to present the possibilities in Argentina for the development of agroecology, as a proposal in search of new designs of more sustainable agriculture, from a complex and transdisciplinary approach, understood as a scientific approach destined to support the transition from the current models of development and conventional agriculture towards more sustainable styles of rural development and agriculture.

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