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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 Jose, Costa Rica in September 1981.
Paper on the problems of technological change and income distribution in the agricultural sector in Latin America resulting from the green revolution introduction of high crop yielding seed varieties and agricultural mechanization - outlines agricultural policy suggestions in respect of land reform and describes some agricultural development models institutionalizing agricultural credit facilities and technical cooperation to tenant farmers and small landowners. References.
Technological discontinuities: adjustment to the crisis and biotechnology; Latin American agriculture in the context of the debt crisis; Technological change in Latin American agriculture; Public sector research; Role and performance of the private sector; The biotechnological revolution.
Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, each of which seeks to explain development as it uniquely unfolds, this book explores how social change in food and agriculture is fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable.