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Through the ImpaCT.AR Program created by the Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation the execution of the project called Socio-productive characterization of Peasant and Indigenous Family Agriculture AFCI for the construction of a Comprehensive Strengthening Plan will be financed. and Development of the Periurban Productive Territories TPP for 7 million pesos.The Undersecretariat of Family Agriculture and Territorial Development of the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries presented a challenge for the construction of a Comprehensive Plan for Strengthening and Development of Periurban Productive Territories TPP.To respond to this challenge with capacities of the scientific and technological system the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires FILO-UBA will execute a research project for a period of two years by generating inputs and tools for the planning of efficient public policies that contribute to the construction of said Comprehensive Plan around four axes access to land commercialization productive models and territorial ordering from a socio-cultural dimension with a gender perspective which locates the and the workers of the family peasant and indigenous agriculture of the TPP as key subjects of the research project and value their experiences and organizational strategies.The scientific activities to be carried out by the work team will include the analysis of documentary sources referring to national provincial and local regulations that involve the selected territories as well as quantitative sources such as National Agricultural Censuses Provincial Censuses specific records such as the National Registry of the AF ReNAF surveys of other state institutions such as INTA and other quantitative studies on TPP and a survey of previous mapping work and experiences in peri-urban areas.There will also be semi-structured interviews with key informants from the TPP surveys of AFCI workers and in-depth interviews with organized AFCI workers analysis of documentary sources referring to the organization of producers. Finally a visual and digital analysis of satellite images will be carried out in geographic information systems software for the delimitation of TPP and a comparative analysis of the structure of production costs and gross margins of productive units both conventional and agroecological of the three TPPs analyzed.The ImpaCT.AR program has the purpose of promoting research and development projects aimed at providing support to public organizations at all levels in the search for solutions to challenges of public interest which require scientific knowledge or technological development to its resolution and thus generate a positive impact on local regional and national development.
