Rural Urban Migration in Latin

Despite persistent rural-urban migration, the agricultural sector has continued to be of vital importance during the last seventy years. Explain, giving examples. INTRODUCTION: In order to answer this question we need to understand why the agricultural sector in Latin America was important in the first place, and what changes have occurred over the last seventy years in the agricultural sector. Today despite an unprecedented growth in the urban sector the rural sector has continued to …

…to dependency upon foreign capital. Despite attempts to remedy this situation over the last century, Latin America is still heavily dependent on its export of primary products. Agrarian reform and the creation of a manufacturing base have both failed to free Countries of dependency as I hope I have shown in this essay, and it is this reason that Agriculture has continued to be of vital importance despite Rural-Urban migration over the last seventy years.