Evolution of the rural dimension in Latin America and the Caribbean

This article addresses rural issues from a double perspective. First, analysis is focussed on the rural environment and its particular ways of life and sociability known as the rural dimension of a society or, genetically, as rurality. Second, issues are addressed from an agrarian point of view, given that agriculture, in a broad sense, is the main productive and economic base of the rural sector and is, for that reason, its most essential component.