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Agricultural Knowledge and Technology in Latin America and the Caribbean: Plausible Scenarios for Sustainable Development | 121

Table 3-1. continued.

Structure

Variable

Variable’s definition

Social involvement in
the management of R+D

Social involvement in the
management of R+D

Social groups are involved in the
decision making and implementation
of R+D activities.

Proper tech nologies for
agricultural activities

Proper technologies for
agricultural activities

The degree with which the
technologies generated by R+D
systems support sustainable
development and also are suitable
to the culture, resources and
conditions of the agricultural
production systems.
Agricultural production systems

Incorporation of
knowledge to
productive systems

Support to the
incorporation of knowledge

Operation of mechanisms for giving
technical assistance (public or
private) to productive systems for
adopting appropriate technologies.
  Incorporation of knowledge
to productive systems		 Choice and adoption of appropriate
technologies by productive systems.
  Integration of production
chains		 Degree of connectivity with and
participation of productive systems
in established production chains.
Attended markets
 Attended markets These are the markets agricultural
production systems send their
produce.
Social organization of
vulnerable production
systems
 Social organization of
vulnerable production
systems		 It is a mechanism for attaining
economies of scale in production,
negotiation capacity, and
improvements in the management
and trade of agricultural productive
systems goods and services.
  Social movements focalized
on the most vulnerable
production systems
Social mobilization as an instrument
for accessing resources and
empowering production systems.
Availability of resources
for agriculture
 Availability of resources for
agriculture		 Access of production systems to
credit, land, water and knowledge.
Performance of
agricultural productive
systems
 Efficiency Relationship between costs of
production and returns in productive
systems.
  Quality of products and
processes		 Sustainability of agricultural
products and processes, and the
degree of agreement between them
and consumer needs.
  Products, subproducts and
waste		 Characteristics of the products, sub
products and waste in regard to their
effect on the environment.
Rent inequality in
agriculture
 Rent inequality in
agriculture		 Relative access to rent by diverse
social groups involved in agricultural
production, like family farmers,
salaried employees, subsistence
farmers, large producers, etc.).
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