La agricultura familiar en el desarrollo rural: continuidades y rupturas del paradigma neoliberal en Argentina y Colombia.

The rural sector policies in Latin America have tried to mitigate the prevailing contradictions and encourage their participation in economic development, in the pursuit of improving the welfare of society. However, these strategies and actions emerge from a particular understanding of 'development' and the appropriate ways to achieve it; in this context, provides a leading or marginal role to family farming. However, after decades of policies and programs implementation aimed to the "rural development", them have failed to result in structural changes or improves in the living conditions of the less capitalized producers sector. Thus, the dominant development policies frame them as dependent subjects in an ongoing process of disappearance, and not as subjects in constant transformation dynamics looking to ensure their reproduction. At this, this article restates this discussion, with reference to two Latin American countries, with the aim of finding continuities and ruptures in the dominant development paradigms, and revealing the paper of family farming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]