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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Cerrados.
Data corrente: | 22/10/1999
Data da última atualização: | 22/10/1999
Autoria: | MACEDO, M. M. COSTA.
Título: | The process of agricultural technology generation in Brazil: a social audit.
Ano de publicação: | 1997
Fonte/Imprenta: | [Sussex]: University of Sussex, 1997.
Páginas: | 423p.
Idioma: | Português
Notas: | Ph.D. Thesis.
Conteúdo: | The focus of agricultural technology studies in Brazil has been on technology diffusion or adoption. This approach stresses the neutrality of technology generation process and the organizations in which technology is generated have not been considered as active factors. This thesis regards both as highly significant in farmers adoption or rejection of technology. Approaches to development, modernisation and underdevelopment, along with agricultural globalisation, are the applied theoretical perspectives used to understand what happens in the underdeveloped countries in intergrated world sustem. This is an ex-post facto and crossectional study. The empirical data, based on a case study, was collected in Brasil, in and around the Brazilian Agricultural Research Organisation (EMBRAPA), a top-down state-owned organisation. Agricultural technology generation, its adoption, as well as the attitudes of users, clients, policy-makers, politicians and unions to the agricultural technology generation process were investigated. The fieldwork was conducted with eighty-seven agricultural researchers from four national agricultural research centres, one hundred and forty-four farmers, and eighty individuals and organisations representatives. Qualitative and quantitative analyses indicated that the agricultural technology generation process is related more to scientific issues than to farmers demands. The technology adopted by farmers was determined primarily by developments within the process of technology generation rather than through any persuasuon. The thesis concludes that as a result of the process of technology generation in EMBRAPA, organised and capitalist farmers have been targeted rather than small or subsistence farmers. Therefore, the new farm as a whole research model is recommended, which explores the whole production system rather than specific agricultural products.
Palavras-Chave: | Brasil; Diffussion of information; Innovation adption.
Thesagro: | Adoção de Inovações; Agricultor; Agricultura; Difusão de Tecnologia; Extensão Rural; Tecnologia Agrícola.
Thesaurus Nal: | agriculture; Brazil; technology transfer.
Categoria do assunto: | --
Registro original: | Embrapa Cerrados (CPAC)
Exemplares: | CPAC - (15931-1) - ADD - TS - -- - T022/97 - MAC - T022/97 - DIS