Title: Technical change and social conflict in agriculture :
Authors: Piñeiro, Martín.; Trigo, Eduardo.; Cooperative Research Project on Agricultural Technology in Latin America.
Date: 1983
Publisher: Westview Press,
Physical description: xvi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: S
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 : [et al.] -- 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.
Notes: 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.
Subject headings (LCSH): Agricultural innovations--Economic aspects--Latin America.; Agricultural innovations--Latin America.; Agricultural innovations--Social aspects--Latin America.; Agriculture and state--Latin America.; Agriculture--Economic aspects--Latin America.; Agriculture--Latin America.; Agriculture--Research--Latin America.