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Technical Change And Social Conflict In Agriculture Latin American Perspectives
272 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
248 Pages
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Routledge
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Incorporating case studies of technological change in six Latin American countries, this book presents the results of a large cooperative research project (PROTAAL) that has led to a new interpretation of the process of technical change in agricultural development. The contributors contrast the perspective emerging from PROTAAL with two other views of technical change in agriculture: the theory of... Read more
Westview Replica Editions -- Preface -- Technological Perspectives -- An Induced Innovation Interpretation of Technical Change in Agriculture in Developed Countries -- Aspects of the Political Economy of Technical Change in Developed Economies -- Technical Change in Latin American Agriculture: A Conceptual Framework for its Interpretation -- A Latin American Perspective: Some Empirical Evidence -- Social Relations of Production, Conflict and Technical Change: The Case of Sugar Production in Colombia -- Agriculture in the Argentine Pampas: Technology Adoption in Corn Cultivation from 1950 to 1978 -- Technology as a Social Issue: Agricultural Research Organization in Latin America -- Social Articulation and Technical Change -- Agricultural Research Organization in Latin America: Issues for the Future -- Foundations of a Science and Technology Policy for Latin American Agriculture -- International Technology: The International Agricultural Research Centers -- Legal Systems and Private Sector Incentives for the Invention of Agricultural Technology in Latin America -- Appendix 1 -- Conclusions: Towards an Interpretation of Technical Change in Latin American Agriculture
Biography
Martín Piñeiro, formerly coordinator of the Cooperative Research Project on Agricultural Technology in Latin America (PROTAAL) at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), is a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales sobre el Estado y la Administración in Argentina. Eduardo Trigo is co-coordinator of PROTAAL and coordinator of the Institutional Task Force on Technology Transfer and Adoption at IICA.
