Technology and Peasantry: the Brazilian case

José Graziano da Silva (), Angela A. Kageyama (), Devancyr A. Romão (), José A. Wagner Neto () and Luzia C. Guedes Pinto ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 1983, vol. 3, issue 4, 428-463

Abstract: This paper proposes a critical evaluation of the technological standards recentlyimposed on Brazilian agriculture and suggests alternative strategies for technology policiesfor small producers. Initially, a diagnosis is made of the situation and characteristics of thepeasant sector in Brazil and the impacts of agricultural modernization on this sector of agriculture.In this diagnosis, there is also a concern to reveal that the institutional organizationx x for the generation and diffusion of agricultural technology by the public sector tends toreinforce the penalties imposed by the economic system on small agricultural producers. Thelast part of this work deals with an analysis of possible modernization strategies for small producers. In this part, there is a concern to reintroduce the “technological issue”, revealingthat a discussion of the appropriation of the results of increased productivity brought aboutby modernization is more important than technological adequacy problems. JEL Classification: Q16; Q18; Q12.

Keywords: Agriculture; small producers; peasants; technology introduction; modernization of agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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