Chaco Province, Agroecology, Original towns, Family farmers
Abstract
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Chaco region was a territory whose inhabitants formed an eco-anthropo-organization as an indissoluble part of nature that surrounded them. This human-nature communion began to be destroyed with the arrival of the first Europeans in the 16th century, such destruction exacerbated since the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, when the practices of deforestation first and agriculture later began to increase. From then on, voices, that warned that the path that was beginning to be taken was going to bring unfavorable consequences for both the region and its inhabitants, were raised. The aim of this article is to raise those voices and provide evidence that sustainable or agroecological practices were carried out since ancient times in Chaco Province. Due to this, bibliographic and testimonial survey of Chaco territory actors was carried out rescuing names, alerts and actions that were developed from academic, socio-political and productive spheres in order to produce amicably with nature. People and institutions that have been developing agroecological production processes highlight that this is a region where there is a strong dispute with the hegemonic model over agribusiness. Nowadays, there is an agroecological movement that follows those voices that had arisen in past times, when they still did not know that what they were proposing would later be called agroecology.
