Commemorating the 100th anniversary of engineer H. Giberti's birthday

Eighth IADE Debate Conference -Open Professorship of Agrarian Studies "Agr. Horacio Giberti"

Abstract

In present days, important changes in agrarian policies can be observed in comparison to what happened less than three years ago. A tax reduction policy for more concentrated sectors of agro-industrial chains prevails; a major part of conquered advances in relation to family agriculture has been destroyed; a setback concerning the demands of the so-called "Foreignization of the Land Bill" has begun; massive imports of primary or agro-industrial goods which were traditionally produced in or exported from our country have contributed to the structural deficit of the last two years' trade balance; important institutional areas linked to agro-industrial production -such as the Agro-Industry Ministry, INTI, SENASA and CONICET, amongst others -are being destroyed; macro-economic policies and the fall of real wages have contributed to accentuate the crisis in agrarian economies outside of the Pampas.The aim of this Eighth Debate Conference, 100 years after the birth of Horacio Giberti, is to examine the memory of his personality, life and work and to therefore build a framework for the analysis of today's agrarian situation.