Geographic visualization for the management of the rural territorial development in Argentina

Currently there are important changes on a global scale that descend to rural areas. In these transformation scenarios, governments, agencies and international organizations seek new paradigms of intervention that allow the interrelationship of both public and private actors to implement policies that take advantage of the synergies resulting from their joint actions. The territorial approach to rural development is thus presented as a strategic vision that can contribute to strengthening the economic, social and environmental development of rural areas. For this, it is necessary to establish substantial management models in accordance with the competitiveness and attraction of the territories, which requires knowing their strengths and weaknesses. In order for scientists to be able to provide compelling elements in aiding decision-making, it is not only necessary to have a good knowledge of the disciplinary field of the subject in question, but also to make use of the applied science that current technologies provide. In this sense, Geographic Information Systems are a tool that allows good political decisions to be made based on georeferenced scientific information. The main idea of the work that has been developed is to present the process of agriculturization registering the Argentina territory from the last decades of the last century to the present, managing the territory at sight. This is exemplified using some results of a previous project, which was developed with the use of GIS technology