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Pablo Hary (Buenos Aires, 1 July 1901 – Henderson, 4 February 1995) was an Argentine architect and agricultural producer, and the founder of the Argentine CREA Movement (from the Spanish Consorcios Regionales de Experimentación Agrícola, "Regional Consortiums for Agricultural Experimentation") and of the Asociación Argentina de Consorcios Regionales de Experimentación Agrícola (AACREA), which he presided from 1960 to 1969.[1][2][3] He promoted in Argentina a method of peer-learning groups among agricultural producers inspired by the French Centres d'études techniques agricoles (CETA), a methodology that later spread to Uruguay, Paraguay and other Southern Cone countries.[1][3]
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Pablo Hary | |
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| Born | 1 July 1901 |
| Died | 4 February 1995 (aged 93) Henderson, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
| Occupations | Architect, agricultural producer |
| Known for | Founder of the Argentine CREA Movement |
| Awards | Inter-American Agricultural Development Medal (1977); Massey-Ferguson Prize (1978); Honorary Agricultural Engineer, University of Buenos Aires (1991) |
In 1989 he was elected a full member of the Argentine National Academy of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine.[1] In 1991 the University of Buenos Aires conferred on him the degree of agronomist honoris causa, and the Province of Buenos Aires designated him "Distinguished Citizen of Buenos Aires" (Bonaerense Ilustre).[1]
Biography
Early life and education
Pablo Hary was born in Buenos Aires on 1 July 1901 into a family of French descent. His grandfather, Charles Hary, had founded the Argentine branch of the family, and his father, also named Pablo Hary, was an engineer and architect.[1]
He attended secondary school at the Colegio del Salvador and the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, and subsequently enrolled at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Buenos Aires, where he graduated as an architect in 1923.[1]
Agricultural career
Hary practiced architecture for approximately two years. In 1926 he left the profession permanently to devote himself full-time to agricultural activity.[1] He managed farms in the Tres Arroyos district and established his principal residence at estancia Bersée, near the town of Henderson, in the western Buenos Aires Province.[1]
Founding the CREA Movement
Around 1955, the Argentine agricultural engineer Enrique Capelle—a personal friend of Hary who had travelled to France—brought him information about the French Centres d'études techniques agricoles (CETA), private associations of farmers that had emerged in France from 1944 onwards with the goal of sharing technical experience among peers under the coordination of a professional adviser.[1][3][2]
Hary adapted the French model to the Argentine context. On 9 March 1957, at his estancia Bersée, he organized the first meeting of what became the first CREA group (Consorcio Regional de Experimentación Agrícola), bringing together ten farmers from the Henderson and Daireaux area and a technical adviser hired by the group.[1][2][4]
The experiment was quickly replicated in other productive regions of Argentina. On 3 March 1960, the Argentine Federation of Regional Consortiums for Agricultural Experimentation (FACREA), later renamed AACREA, was formally constituted with Hary as its first president. He held the presidency until 1969.[1][4]
During his presidency the movement consolidated the federated structure of groups, zones and regions that it retains today, and began its international expansion, which led in 1966 to the founding of FUCREA (Uruguayan Federation of CREA Groups).[3]
Later years
After leaving the AACREA presidency in 1969, Hary remained connected to the movement and received multiple forms of institutional recognition for his pioneering role in organizing Argentine agricultural producers.[1] He died at his estancia Bersée on 4 February 1995, at the age of 93.[1]
Awards and honours
| Year | Distinction | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Inter-American Agricultural Development Medal | Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture |
| 1978 | Massey-Ferguson Prize | Massey Ferguson |
| 1989 | Full member | Argentine National Academy of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine |
| 1991 | Agronomist honoris causa | University of Buenos Aires |
| 1991 | Distinguished Citizen of Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires Province |
| 1993 | Honorary member | Argentine Rural Society |
Source: Argentine National Academy of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine.[1]
Selected works
- Hary, Pablo (1989). "Entre 'cultivar' y 'explotar' – ¿agricultura o minería?" ["Between 'cultivating' and 'exploiting' – agriculture or mining?"]. Inaugural address as a full member of the Academy. Anales de la Academia Nacional de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Vol. XLIV.[5]
- Articles published in Revista CREA throughout his career, including special issues on the methodology of CREA groups (June 1969, among others).[1]
Legacy
The group methodology that Hary introduced in Argentina in 1957 became one of the longest continuously operating agricultural extension methodologies in Latin America, and served as the model for the Cambio Rural programme launched by the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) in 1993 for small and medium-sized producers.[6]
By 2025, the Argentine CREA Movement had grouped approximately 2,000 agricultural enterprises in around 200 groups distributed across 18 productive regions.[7][8] Hary's role has been analysed in studies on Argentine agrarian history, particularly in works addressing the emergence and consolidation of the so-called "technical entities" of the agricultural sector.[4][9]
See also
- Asociación Argentina de Consorcios Regionales de Experimentación Agrícola
- CREA Movement
- Centre d'études techniques agricoles
- FUCREA
- Cambio Rural
- Agriculture in Argentina
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