| Sumario: | Rural society in Latin America has been confronted with serious problems, such as rural poverty, agricultural production changes, the exodus to the urban areas or the inclusion of small and mediumsized farmers in the value chains. To solve these problems comes the definition of New Rurality which studies the policies that satisfy the social needs of the rural world. On the other hand, the Social Economy, whose most representative legal figure is the cooperative, proposes that social interest is above economic interests and studies how to meet the needs of people at risk of social exclusion. First, it has been made a comparative and critical study of how rural policies in Latin America have been developed. Second, we study how agricultural cooperatives influence agricultural production in some Latin American countries. Finally, some measures are proposed to foster the application of cooperative models within Latin America.
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