01845naa a2200217 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000210006024501610008126000090024252010920025165000220134365000190136565300170138465300360140165300330143765300290147070000290149970000200152877300790154818725992011-01-21       2010    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aRODRIGUES, G. S.  aAn environmental impact assessment system for agricultural research and development IIbinstitutional learning experience at Embrapa.h[electronic resource]  c2010  aAn environmental impact assessment system for agricultural R&D? has been implemented by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Agency (Embrapa) aiming at fulfilling the institutional mission statement of ?introducing sustainable development objectives in all steps of agricultural research?. The impact assessment platform emphasizes close interaction between R&D teams and technology-adopting producers, under actual field contexts, in order to improve both the technology development and the demand probing processes. The proposed integrated environmental indicators system (Ambitec-Agro) has been routinely applied in technology appraisals by all of Embrapa?s Research Units, as one of the criteria of its institutional evaluation system, and toward the formulation of the Social Balance Reports, annually published since 1997. The present paper describes the social and environmental dimensions of this integrated impact assessment platform, its roles in the institutional learning process for technology research management, and an impact analysis of proposed agricultural innovations.  aImpacto Ambiental  aImpacto Social  aAmbitec-Agro  aEnvironmental impact assessment  aMulti-dimensional evaluation  aSocial impact assessment1 aBUSCHINELLI, C. C. de A.1 aAVILA, A. F. D.  tJournal of Technology Management & Innovationgv. 5, n. 4, p. 38-56, 2010.