History and Coexistence of Agricultural Development Models. The Cases of Argentina, France and Brazil

ALBALADEJO, CHRISTOPHE

Coexistence and Confrontation of Agricultural and Food Models

Springer

Año: 2023; p. 155 - 166

In order toconsider the adaptation of agriculture, one has to introduce the question oftime into the analysis of agricultural activity, in other words, into theanalysis of one of the most significant activities of humanity that concernsnature and forms of occupation of geographical space. We therefore need atheory of social change, and of the modes of relating to territories and to nature.Change, and therefore time, can be conceptualised in three major ways: systemictime, which highlights functioning (Delattre, 1985), but struggles to takeevolution into account; adaptation time, which makes it possible to address theevolutionary process of systems, notably through Piaget’s (1975) concept of ‘majoringequilibration’, but which does not explain revolutions; and historical time,which addresses the long term through a division of time into periods (called ‘historicalblocs’ in Gramsci, 2012) that explains profound upheavals. Thus, functioning,adaptation and history are three different ways of understanding change andtherefore time.We willbriefly present a theory that makes it possible to account for the coexistenceof agricultural models, and then analyse the modern origins of the currentsituation. We will then discuss the adaptation processes at work in this newcontext and, finally, we will examine the future of this situation of coexistenceand ask whether it is temporary.@font-face{font-family:"Cambria Math";panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:roman;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-unhide:no;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:no-line-numbers;mso-hyphenate:none;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:AR-SA;}.MsoChpDefault{mso-style-type:export-only;mso-default-props:yes;font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;}div.WordSection1{page:WordSection1;}@font-face{font-family:"Cambria Math";panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:roman;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-unhide:no;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:no-line-numbers;mso-hyphenate:none;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:AR-SA;}.MsoChpDefault{mso-style-type:export-only;mso-default-props:yes;font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;}div.WordSection1{page:WordSection1;}