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MARTIN, Lucy. Transformaciones agrícolas y experiencias de innovación a escala local. cultrop [online]. 2009, vol.30, n.2, pp. 00-00. ISSN 0258-5936.

Starting from some investigation-transformation experiences on agricultural systems in Cuba, this paper studies outstanding areas within a sustainable rural development conception, such as the strengthening and diversification of agricultural systems and local economies, actors´ organization and participation in developing processes that make evident the movement from an eminently technological approach towards a more social and integrating proposal. Evidences emanating from investigation-action within the agricultural context endorse the benefits and possibility of: a) combining crop improvement with genetic diversity maintenance; b) making male or female farmers participate in breeding activity; c) needing to enlarge varietal selection criteria beyond the strictly economic ones, d) obtaining benefits from the double-way learning process and e) widening sustainability criteria which are not referred to specific technologies but to particular contexts in which they are inserted, so potentiating the relationship between agricultural research and the actual conditions of different productive systems. Besides, this study shows the need of a greater presence in the rural development conception designs within Cuban context, focused on local actors´ self-transforming and self-developing potentialities, to conform a more endogenous and sustainable development model.

Palabras clave : rural development; sustainability; participation; farmers; social classes.

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