Propuesta de intervención de Trabajo Social territorial con comunidades rurales de Chile central en contexto de globalización

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This document presents a methodological proposal for the intervention of Social Work with rural communities that maintain practices linked to a farming way of life, and whose incomes partly come from family agriculture. Furthermore, they manage local seeds and produce food at different scales. This work presents the result of a twelve-year process of implementation and connection with the rural environment, which involved two training subjects of the Social Work Program of Catholic University of Maule. Using an action research model that correlated in situ with rural territories, teams of students articulated experiences, knowledge and debates developed in the courses, with a process of action in a territory selected under specific criteria of feasibility and closeness. Numerous students’ experiences of building partnerships with local agents, allowed for gathering updated information on the experience of the producers, and identified the needs of appropriateness for social interventions. Using this information, a professional action model is proposed, which searches to overcome the identified gaps and aims at promoting citizen empowerment, food sovereignty, and the co-building of strategies of social inclusion at different scales, within the context of endogenous development. The aforementioned acquires significance considering the relevance of food producers within globalization and crisis scenarios, and the importance of their participation in the management of their territory. This document firstly describes the formative process and the characteristics of the target population, and then proposes professional action with consideration of its epistemological, theoretical and methodological fundamentals. The intention is for a disciplinary and professional debate upon Social Work and its social inclusion vocation to be opened.