Los sistemas pecuarios en patagonia norte: centro de una experiencia educativa internacional

Abstract

The interest of the implication of students of related careers (Veterinary and Agro-development) and from different countries (France and Argentina) to research projects, proposed by the teachers of the two collaborating universities, is presented here. Foot-and-mouth disease has required permanent management since it appeared in Argentina in 1870. For better control of the disease, different areas were established. In the area called Patagonia Norte A, located between the rivers Negro and Colorado, considered free of foot-and-mouth disease, vaccination was continued to prevent the entry of the virus to the rest of Patagonia. In 2013, the obligation to vaccinate cattle in this area was suspended, causing hypothetical changes in the management of the farms present in the area. To understand the practices and strategies of the producers, two different planswere proposed to the two students involved in the project. The french student focused on typifying the various producers in the middle valley (Rio Negro), and the argentine student focused on studying the productive alternatives that were generated to preserve and improve the genetics of the rodeo before the impossibility of entering animals in Walk to the study area. The methodology chosen from a systemic approach, was the diagnostic analysis of livestock systems. Ten types of productive systems were described as well as producers strategies to solve the changesresulting from the sanitary status the drought that took place between the years 2007 And 2012. The french-argentine tandem turned out to be a complementary experience to understand the changes that still continue today