Abstract

MUSCIO, Luciana. Agrochemicalsin question, practices in tension: The use of agricultural inputs and environmental care in family Lobería farmers. Trab. soc. [online]. 2017, n.29, pp.157-176. ISSN 1514-6871.

This paper is about productive practices and decisions that family farmers of Lobería, Buenos Aires province, make on agrochemicals use. Through interviews it is analized uses and main economic, technological and symbolic conditioning factors involved in interviewee decisions making and their relationship with chemical inputs uses. According to interviewees speech about their practices it is identified different perceptions of safety / danger of these inputs and different razonabilidades about care-or not-of natural resources and the environment.

Keywords : Chemical inputs; Production decisions; Conditioning factors; Rationality.

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