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are cities reinventing rural development? The cases of Bahla Blanca and Pigüé in Argentina - In Argentina cities with large technical departments are in a position to grasp the strong decentralisation movement in order to attempt implementing local development in rural areas. This paper uses interviews with the main agricultural stakeholders in two districts in the southern part of the province of Buenos Aires, including an average-sized city (300,000 inhabitants) and a town (13,000 inhabitants), to show that new rural intervention methods are being used. They differ from the agricultural development government's policy in the way they support many initiatives, some of them quite inconspicuous, from small farm families and local companies and represent an important transformation of rural territories.