Producción agropecuaria y desarrollo en Argentina: un análisis desde la regionalización en el Censo Nacional Agropecuario 2008

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the links between two analytical tools: regions and censuses. Both tools are used to design the political approaches regarding a territory, related to agricultural development. With this purpose, we make an issue of regionalizations and censuses as public policy tools, the Argentine census history and the way in which territorial asymmetries have been established in this country, in order to advance into the relationship details of the regionalizations established by the National Agricultural Census 2008 and the construction of the categories and variables for the census data collection. We conclude that both tools are closely linked and that censuses are the material foundation of the regions. Moreover, the construction of survey variables is related to historical processes and to the economic framework in which the variables were delineated, this produces a double concealment: of productive species and agrarian subjects, which reinforces the inter and intra-regional asymmetries.