AGROECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RURAL COMMUNITY: THE CASE OF CERRO PELADO/URUGUAY

摘要

http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/223611708648 This study proposes an analysis of rural development community with reference to empirical rural locality of CerroPelado located in Uruguay. The main objective is to analyze the perspective of socio-environmental relationsagroecological community Cerro Pelado. For the research methods used were direct observation, field journal,literature review and semi structured interviews. Analyses of agroecology focus efforts on community dimension inwhich they operate farmers, ie the sociocultural reality that provides an intellectual and political praxis of localidentity and its network of social relations. Cerro Pelado is shown integrated with pampa, resists modernizationprocess through the enhancement of their local culture and its countryside. The integration to the pampa is observedthrough the modes of production of farmers using cattle breeding as their main activity, thus revealing his identitygaucha.