Resumen

LORES, A; LEYVA, A  y  VARELA, M. Los Dominios de Recomendaciones: Establecimiento e importancia para el análisis científico de los agroecosistemas. cultrop [online]. 2008, vol.29, n.3, pp. 5-10. ISSN 0258-5936.

Having in mind the need to design programs adjusted to producers´ situation and their specific technological demands for encouraging a sustainable agricultural development, this research was conducted with the aim of determining farm groups or recommendation domains existing in Zaragoza community, besides identifying which are the main variables responsible for grouping and characterizing them from a socioeconomic and ecological viewpoint. Thus, 12 variables providing a high discriminating power to farm differentiation analysis in this community from San José de las Lajas, were determined through multivariate analytical techniques, standing out the following ones: (i) land use capacity (ii) workforce based on the amount of persons living and working in farms and (iii) system specialization with a variation coefficient of 196.57; 104.55 and 137.6 %, respectively, as the highest discriminating power variables for differentiation analysis. It was also determined that there are three farmer groups or recommendation domains taking part in 67, 13 and 20 %, respectively, with different features and specific needs. Domains were characterized and the conditions created to formulate differentiated strategies and actions according to the needs, potentialities and problems of each group established

Palabras clave : agroecosystems; statistic methods; sustainability.