Development models and technological innovation. A conservative revolution

In Argentina, innovations related to biotechnologies were rapidly adopted while initially there was an absence of a large social debate. To understand this absence, the institutional framework which legitimized technological innovations must be addressed. This framework was undoubtedly one of the conditions of success of the dissemination of the agribusiness model. It ´s unfolding also evidences the restructuring of local rural dominant classes that led to the emergency of new social actors. These were the “innovators” gathered in the Argentine Association of No-Tilling Farmers (or AAPRESID).   Here, we analyze how innovations were introduced and legitimated in Argentina. In contrast to what AAPRESID has termed as a “paradigmatic revolution”, we will characterize the introduction of biotechnologies in Argentine agriculture as a “conservative revolution”.

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Main Authors: Gras, Carla, Hernández, Valeria
Format: Digital revista
Language:spa
Published: Centro de Historia Argentina y Americana 2016
Online Access:https://www.mundoagrario.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/MAe028
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