04203nam a2200229 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000190006024501530007926001910023230000190042350000180044252033610046065000200382165000110384165000150385265000250386765300210389265300190391370000190393270000220395119264282020-01-08       2012    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aBAMBINI, M. D.  aAgricultural Zoning of Climatic Hazardsban instrument of Agriculture Policy in Brazil from Innovation Sociology perspective.h[electronic resource]  aIn: JORNADAS LATINOAMERICANAS DE ESTUDIOS DE LA CIENCIA Y LA TECNOLOGÍA, 9., 2012, Ciudad de México. Balance del campo ESOCITE en América Latina y Desafíos. [S.l.: s.n.], 2012.c2012  aNão paginado.  aESOCITE 2012.  aThis paper describes an innovative agriculture research initiative developed in Brazil, the Agricultural Zoning of Climatic Hazards, that has been converted into a public policy since 1996. It exemplifies the case of a technological innovation that has been successfully implemented as a public policy by Brazilian Agriculture Ministry. Being almost universal as public policy, once it serves to the great commercial properties and to the small ones - all of them equally exposed to climate elements and hazards - it led to an increase in profitability, offered more security and credibility to agriculture, to finance and rural insurance sectors. Its origins were at the research project initiated in 1995, by scientists of Embrapa, the main Public Institution of Agriculture Research in Brazil, and financed by the Agriculture Ministry. The project aimed to promote regional studies of climatic events in Brazilian territory in order to reduce agricultural losses, by communicating to farmers the most appropriate periods for plantation regarding water availability. At that time, PROAGRO, the official agricultural insurance program, had to cope with high insurance claims due to crop losses and the consequent payment of large compensations to producers. As a consequence, this program had severe operationalization difficulties, specially regarding the payment of insurance claims. The Ministry of Agriculture then released a report identifying that the main cause for crop losses was water availability: either too much rain in the harvest period or drought during the reproductive phase of the culture. A heterogeneous network was formed to promote regional studies of climatic events in Brazilian territory in order to reduce agricultural losses. The collaborative arrangement included: agriculture research institutes, universities, government agencies and the Brazilian Meteorological Services. During the execution of the project, there were developed mathematical, probabilistic and agrometeorological models that indicate which culture should be planted, when and where in order to get 80% chance of success in harvesting (Assad, 2004). This modeling work is based on the climate history of the region, the meteorological data available and the biological information regarding the crop chosen for cultivation. As a result, in 1996 were published first recommendations of the Agricultural Zoning of Climatic Hazards. This paper presents an exploratory research of qualitative nature. It involves a study of the experience, as described by Selltiz, Jahoda, Deutsch and Cook (1975), that contributes the understanding of two phenomena: the factors that influence the coordination of network scientific and the process of converting it into a public policy. The conceptual approach used to study the selected experience is based on the techno-economic network concept and associated tools (Callon, Laredo and Rabeharisoa, 1992; Callon, Laredo and Mustar, 1995). The article describes the composition, activities and coordination strategies of this collaborative arrangement and its implementation as a public policy in 1996. The paper also describes the agrometeorological context and the scientific bases of the zoning method and the economic, social and politic impacts arising of Agricultural Zoning of Climatic Hazards policy since the 1990s.  aAgrometeorology  aZoning  aInovação  aZoneamento Agrícola  aAgrometeorologia  aNew technology1 aFURTADO, A. T.1 aZULLO JÚNIOR, J.