Rural-urban Relationships in the Current Period of Agricultural Modernization in Southern Córdoba Province (Argentina)

Abstract

This article analyzes transformations of rural-urban relationships between populations of small cities and densely populated rural areas in Río Cuarto department (Córdoba, Argentina) which are caused by the development of increasingly specialized and globalized agriculture. Agricultural census data was examined and exploratory field work was carried out with the purpose of investigating changes in land use, deepening of the technical and scientific knowledge utilized in productive activities, in the destination of production and in inputs required by modern agricultural production in southern Cordoba province. The main objective is to analyze how the economy of urban centers and densely populated rural areas is organized and reorganized in response to changing production methods and to identify new socio-territorial dynamics derived from them.