Analysis of agricultural research/extension approaches and methodologies used by FONAIAP Lara in the period 1988 – 1999

Abstract

On a global scale, in the 1950s, conventional rural development strategies tended to view development as a series of technical transfers with the aim of increasing agricultural production. In the same way, in Latin America, rural development approaches had focused only on the generation and adoption of technologies; Guillen et al. (1999) indicate that institutions and planners in the agricultural sector until recently considered that increasing agricultural production was a problem only of technology. However, the appropriation of these in rural areas was not desired, for not considering the cultural, social, economic and technical differences that exist in the various rural contexts. The situation raised generated a disarticulation between the technology generated and that used in local conditions.