Technical Change and Social Conflict in Agriculture
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About the Book and Editors
Technical Change and Social Conflict in Agriculture: Latin American Perspectives
edited by Martn Pieiro and Eduardo Trigo
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 induced innovation and the political economy approach. They then describe the methodology developed by PROTAAL, which is highlighted in their analysis of the case studies. In the concluding chapters, the authors address important issues concerning the organization of agricultural research activities at the national and international levels and consider theoretical and policy implications for the analysis of technical change in Latin American agriculture.
Martn Pieiro, 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 Administracin in Argentina. Eduardo Trigo is co-coordinator of PROTAAL and coordinator of the Institutional Task Force on Technology Transfer and Adoption at IICA.
A similar English version of Chapter 3 was published in Food Policy (England), Vol. 4, No. 3: 169177, 1979.
A similar Spanish version of Chapter 4 was published in Comercio Exterior (Mexico), Vol. 31, No. 3: 303318, 1981.
A similar Spanish version of Chapter 6 was accepted for publication in Desarrollo Econmico (Argentina).
A similar English version of Chapter 7 was accepted for publication in Food Policy (England) in 1983. A Spanish version of the same chapter was published in Desarrollo Econmico (Argenti-Vol. 21, No. 84: 435468, 1982.
A similar Spanish version of Chapter 8 was accepted for publication in Comercio Exterior (Mxico).
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Contents
Vernon W. Ruttan
Phillip LeVeen and Alain de Janvry
Martn Pieiro, Eduardo Trigo and Ral Fiorentino
Martn Pieiro, Ral Fiorentino, Eduardo Trigo, Alvaro Balczar and Astrid Martnez
Jorge Federico Sbato
Eduardo Trigo, Martn Pieiro and Jorge Sbato
Martn Pieiro and Eduardo Trigo
Eduardo Trigo and Martn Pieiro
John K. Coulter
Donald D. Evenson and Robert E. Evenson
Martn Pieiro and Eduardo Trigo
An Induced Innovation Interpretation of Technical Change in Agriculture in Developed Countries:
Aspects of the Political Economy of Technical Change in Developed Economies:
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:
International Technology: The International Agricultural Research Centers:
Legal Systems and Private Sector Incentives for the Invention of Agricultural Tech-nology in Latin America:
An Induced Innovation Interpretation of Technical Change in Agriculture in Developed Countries:
Social Relations of Production, Conflict and Technical Change: The Case of Sugar Pro-duction in Colombia:
Agriculture in the Argentine Pampas: Technology Adoption in Corn Cultivation from 1950 to 1978:
International Technology: The International Agricultural Research Centers:
Legal Systems and Private Sector Incentives for the Invention of Agricultural Technol-ogy in Latin America:
This book presents the intellectual production of the first phase of the Cooperative Research Project on Agricultural Technology in Latin America (PROTAAL) and the most relevant papers presented by invitees at a meeting held in San Jos, Costa Rica in September 1981.
