TY - JOUR
T1 - Agua, tierra y fractura sociometabólica del agronegocio. Actividad frutícola en petorca, Chile
AU - Panez-Pinto, Alexander
AU - Mansilla-Quiñones, Pablo
AU - Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - We inquire the socio-ecological transformations that the agribusiness generates in the territorial dynamics through the concept of social metabolism. The study consists in; a) the method of estimation of virtual water, for the calculation of water volumes used in the fruit sector and its impacts on water availability in the basins, b) analysis of the territorial transformation of the social relations on the use of land and the different kinds of crops. We take as a case study the Petorca Province in Chile, a place that had experienced an intense territorial conflict regarding the water issue, caused by the private water management in Chile, fruit agribusiness and the effects of long periods of droughts. The results show the deepening of a socio-metabolic rift on the territory, generated by the intensification of fruit exportation. This rift made peasant agriculture unviable by provoking territorial dynamics where small farmers do not have water to raise animals and to plant crops for their subsistence.
AB - We inquire the socio-ecological transformations that the agribusiness generates in the territorial dynamics through the concept of social metabolism. The study consists in; a) the method of estimation of virtual water, for the calculation of water volumes used in the fruit sector and its impacts on water availability in the basins, b) analysis of the territorial transformation of the social relations on the use of land and the different kinds of crops. We take as a case study the Petorca Province in Chile, a place that had experienced an intense territorial conflict regarding the water issue, caused by the private water management in Chile, fruit agribusiness and the effects of long periods of droughts. The results show the deepening of a socio-metabolic rift on the territory, generated by the intensification of fruit exportation. This rift made peasant agriculture unviable by provoking territorial dynamics where small farmers do not have water to raise animals and to plant crops for their subsistence.
KW - Agribusiness
KW - Chile
KW - Social metabolism
KW - Water
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U2 - 10.15446/bitacora.v28n3.72210
DO - 10.15446/bitacora.v28n3.72210
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054754820
SN - 0124-7913
VL - 28
SP - 153
EP - 160
JO - Bitacora Urbano Territorial
JF - Bitacora Urbano Territorial
IS - 3
ER -