In recent years, the global economies have been faced with steeply rising prices. The members of World Bank and the United Nations including WFP (World Food Program) appeal to the world for necessary food emergency aid programs so that people in poverty might be prevented from being troubled by food shortages. Developed countries, such as Japan, the EU and the United States, comply with the world demand. One of the causes of the steeply rising price of food are the money inflow into the commodity futures market from the oil market and the investment market for housing at the United States. The changing food demand of BRICs, in which Brazil, Russia, India and China are involved, and emerging economies is the biggest factor of steep rising price of food. This will bring the structural change into the world food market. The fourth report of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) indicates the possibility of drought, temporary flooding, water shortage and transition of suitable land on agricultural production in the future. Agricultural production is not only carried through under these global environmental problems but also the effects of agricultural production on the global environment have to be minimized. The aim of this paper is to consider the possibility of attaining the sustainable agricultural production, which may minimize the influence of agricultural production on the global environment and which may keep pace with changing food demand and population increase by reviewing present studies, especially those focusing on biofuels and water issues. The sustainability science perspective is appropriated in order to consider the shape of sustainable agricultural production.

La importancia de esta investigación está centrada en la reflexión sobre el desarrollo y el agua, sobre las particularidades de la agricultura familiar y su relación con el fortalecimiento de la soberanía alimentaria y el enfoque de las prácticas de intervención, que incorpore el análisis complejo de una realidad en particular, la producción y reproducción social de la agricultura familiar en la Provincia de Córdoba. Este trabajo se basa en la hipótesis de que las prácticas de intervención y las tecnologías propuestas para que los agricultores familiares accedan al agua para producir y reproducirse socialmente deben responder a un paradigma de reconocimiento y aceptación de las condiciones agroecológicas y dinámicas socioorganizativas a partir de las cuales construir territorios sociales equitativos. Se seleccionaron tres (3) estudios de caso, utilizando técnicas de relevamiento de información secundaria de diversas fuentes y de información primaria como entrevistas a informantes seleccionados y entrevistas en profundidad. De esta primera información primaria se detectan dos casos donde la práctica de gestión del agua surge de un trabajo previo comunitario y ayudo a consolidar la organización. En el restante caso se visualiza una actividad transferencista. | The importance of this research is focused in the reflection on development and water, on the particularities of family farming and its relation to the strengthening of food sovereignty and the approach of intervention practices, incorporating the complex analysis of a particular reality, production and social reproduction of family farming in the province of Córdoba. This work is based on the hypothesis that intervention practices and technologies proposals for family farmers accessing to water to produce and reproduce socially must respond to a paradigm of recognition and acceptance of agro-ecological and socio-organizational dynamics from which build equitable social territories. Three (3) case studies were selected using survey techniques of secondary information from various sources and primary data as interviews with selected informants and interviews. In the first two cases where primary information management practice water comes from a communal previous work and help strengthen the organization are detected. In the remaining case, a transferencista activity is displayed | Eje A6: Desarrollo Rural, Movimientos Sociales, Estado y Agroecología | Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales