Universidad de Quilmes

Forests in the socio-ecological transition. A perspective for forest history in Gran Chaco. Historical limits of sustainability in a context of capitalist exploitation. (1900-2020)

The project analyzes specific cases of forest evolution that allow a better understanding of the functioning of the socio-ecological transition, its causes and effects in different regions of the Gran Chaco. The specific issues can be related to changes in the area occupied by forests (deforestation or reforestation processes) or to changes in their composition.

The role of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA) in the hegemony of agribusiness in Brazil and Argentina.

The project aims to analyze the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA), questioning its social relevance by sharing economic interests, sociability networks and symbolic references that have shaped the political agenda of the so-called agribusiness in Brazil and Argentina.

Revisiting the border movement: Argentina, Brazil and Chile at the turn of a new century (1889-1929), a comparative history essay

The project seeks to reflect on the process of land commodification in the areas of the advancing food frontier in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reviewing records, legislation, documents, arrangements, writings. Consolidated and disputed agrarian historiographies when thinking about the role of agriculture in Chile, Brazil and Argentina before the Great Depression of 1929. Café del Oeste paulista

The forest model and the ecological transformation of the landscape in the Southern Cone. Critical analysis of the model of forest production in the cases of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay from 1980-2020

The project identifies the establishment of "silviculture" as a specific model for the transformation of land into capital in the Southern Cone countries and its ecological transformation of the landscape.

The Anthropocene in Argentina. Soil, oil and water. A study of land use in the Colorado River Basin (1960-2020)

This project investigates the use of water resources in the Colorado River Basin in the period 1960-2020 and the socio-environmental deterioration that this has entailed. To this end, it proposes a historical-environmental study of the agro-export and extractivist models of the second half of the 19th and 20th centuries in the basin.

Technology at the service of wine quality in Mendoza, (cc. 1970-1990)

The research project is aimed at studying the initial conditions and the role of social actors in the province of Mendoza that resulted modernization of the winemaking process. In particular, this project analyzes the R&D&I process in winegrowing in this province from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.