El proceso de agriculturización en territorios con diferente matriz ecológico-productiva. El caso de la cuenca Mar Chiquita, provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

In recent decades, the increasing and continuous use of land for agricultural crops in the Pampean Region has been deepened, generating consequences in the ecological, economic-productive and socio-demographic dimension. The aim was to analyze the agriculturalisation process in Counties of Mar Chiquita Basin (Buenos Aires, Argentina) characterized by soils with different aptitude for agricultural use. The methodology was based on the analysis of the variation of indicators on the variables that characterize it grouped by dimensions. The results showed two different patterns of the agriculturisation process, mainly determined by changes in the variables of the socio-demographic dimension for agricultural Counties and with greater affectation of the economic-productive dimension for livestock Counties, which showed a greater overall impact of the process and the ecological dimension, although differences in these cases were slight. It requires a comprehensive view of the territorial processes that show their impact on the vulnerability of the system.