Research Catalog

Title

Technical change and social conflict in agriculture : Latin American perspectives / edited by Martín Piñeiro and Eduardo Trigo.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Piñeiro, Martín.
• Trigo, Eduardo.
• Cooperative Research Project on Agricultural Technology in Latin America.

Description

xvi, 248 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.

Summary

Conference papers resulting from a cooperative research project on agricultural technology in Latin America (PROTAAL) and the relation with social conflict - discusses the induced Innovation theory, the economic policy of technological change and agricultural development in developed countries, modernization and production relations in the Colombian sugar industry, agricultural policy and agricultural production trends 1950-1978 in Argentina, role of research centres in agricultural research, science policy, private sector incentives, etc.

Series Statement

A Westview replica edition

Uniform Title

Westview replica edition

Subject

• Agricultural innovations > Latin America
• Agricultural innovations > Social aspects > Latin America
• Agricultural innovations > Economic aspects > Latin America
• Agriculture > Research > Latin America
• Agriculture and state > Latin America
• Agriculture > Latin America
• Agriculture > Economic aspects > Latin America
• Agricultural innovations
• Agricultural innovations > Economic aspects
• Agricultural innovations > Social aspects
• Agriculture
• Agriculture and state
• Agriculture > Economic aspects
• Agriculture > Research
• Landwirtschaft
• Sozialer Konflikt
• Technische Innovation
• Technischer Fortschritt
• Kongress
• agricultural technology
• social conflict
• innovation
• theory
• economic policy
• technological change
• agricultural development
• modernization
• production relations
• sugar industry
• agricultural policy
• agricultural production
• trend
• research centre
• agricultural research
• science policy
• private sector
• technologie agricole
• conflit social
• théorie
• politique économique
• changement technologique
• développement agricole
• modernisation
• rapports de production
• industrie du sucre
• politique agricole
• production agricole
• tendance
• centre de recherche
• recherche agricole
• politique scientifique
• secteur privé
• tecnología agrícola
• conflicto social
• innovación
• teoría
• política económica
• cambio tecnológico
• desarrollo agrícola
• modernización
• relaciones de producción
• industria del azúcar
• política agraria
• producción agrícola
• tendencia
• centro de investigación
• investigación agrícola
• política científica
• sector privado
• Latin America
• Lateinamerika
• Argentina
• developed countries
• Colombia
• Latin America
• Argentine
• Amérique latine
• pays développés
• Colombie
• América Latina
• países desarrollados

Genre/Form

• conference paper.
• document de conférence.
• documento de conferencia.

Note

• A Westview replica edition
• "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 Jose, Costa Rica in September 1981"--P. xv.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 241-248.

Contents

An induced innovation interpretatin of technical change in agriculture in developed countries / Vernon W. Ruttan -- Aspects of the political economy of technical change in developed economies / Phillip LeVeen and Alain de Janvry -- Technical change in Latin American agriculture : a conceptual framework for its interpretation / Martʹin Piñeiro, Eduardo Trigo and Raʹul Hiorentino ... Scial relations of production, conflict and technical change : the case of sugar production in Columbia / Martʹin Piñeiro [and others] -- Agriculture in the Argentine pampas : [and others] -- technology adoption in corn cultivation from 1950 to 1978 / Jorge Federico Sʹabato -- Technology as a social issue : agricultural research organization in Latin America / Eduardo Trigo, Martʹin Pinẽiro and Jorge Sʹabato -- Social articultion and technical change / Martʹin Piñeiro and Eduardo Trigo -- Foundations of a science and technology policy for Latin American agriculture / Eduaro Trigo and Martʹin Pinẽiro -- International technology : the international agricultural research centers / John K. Coulter -- Legal systems and private sector incentives for the invention of agricultural technology in Latin America / Donald D. Evenson and Robert E. Evenson.

ISBN

• 0865318026
• 9780865318021

LCCN

83050881

OCLC

• ocm10298278
• 10298278
• SCSB-600411

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library