ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the processes of social contestation over the agrarian model between 2003 and 2013. It is divided into two parts. The first part covers the period from 2003 to 2008, starting with the new presidential government. The second part starts by analysing the consequences for the struggles of social movements fighting genetically modified (GM) crops and the agrarian model. Greenpeaces diagnosis of the Argentinean development model, oriented towards export markets, led them to the prognostic framing of a global solution to the problem. From a case study of the municipality of San Francisco, in Crdoba, Rauchecker concludes that due to the political unwillingness of the federal government in finding a national solution to pesticide use state provinces are left with the political problem of intervening in agrarian activities, although they have no competence in agrarian policies. In Europe, Carrasco encountered a cynical reaction to his appeals to raise awareness of the local effects of European grain imports.
