Technical Change And Social Conflict In Agriculture

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.

• List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- PART 1: TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- PART II: A LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE: SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- PART III: AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION IN LATIN AMERICA: ISSUES FOR THE FUTURE -- Appendix -- Conclusions: Towards an Interpretation of Technical Change in Latin American Agriculture -- References.