Abstract

BARGAS, Silvia de  and  VIEITES, Carlos M.. Exploración de la relación universidad - medio en el ámbito de la producción orgánica en la Argentina. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2009, vol.4, n.12, pp.69-82. ISSN 1850-0013.

The growing demand of organic production at a world-wide level is seen as an  opportunity for organic producers from developing countries. Although organic  agriculture is seen as the sector with the biggest growth, it is widely accepted that the  lack of institutional support in research and development, as well as in the training of  agricultural assessors, constitutes a serious limitation to the expansion of this activity.  The conditions in universities that tend to prioritize activities connected with research and  development (R&D) and aimed at innovation, are determined increasingly by the  advance of private financing; this constitutes an important limitation to the expansion of  activities that respond to interests of medium and long term of a part of the wide spectrum  that constitutes the farming sector. In this context, this work aims at exploring the current  status of the university-business relation in the area of organic production in Argentina.  Using two opinion surveys directed to faculties of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary  Medicine of local public and private universities, it was verified that R&D activities, as  well as the capacities acquired by the professionals during their undergraduate  education, do not completely satisfy the demands of the productive sector.

Keywords : Organic product; Organic agriculture; University-business relation.

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