From the Large Estate to the World. Cachapoal, a Case of Agropolitan Globalization

This paper reports on a study of territorial reconfiguration in the Cachapoal valley, along its riverside intercommunity route-Coinco, Olivar, Donihue, Coltauco-in the central zone of Chile, regarding the process of modernizing and globalizing agriculture started in the second half of the 1970s. Population and agrarian censuses as well as the CASEN survey were analyzed. Conceptually, it proposes the concept of agro-territories, or agropolis, to designate the agrarian regions. It discerns this concept by comparing it with concepts of new rurality, rural urbanity and rural territories. The main result is the identification of a guideline for repopulation that is essentially agrourban, together with the progressive secondarization of agriculture. Likewise, it identifies a new form of the social question, this time centered not on poverty but on segregation. Adapted from the source document.