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Revista iberoamericana de ciencia tecnología y sociedad
On-line version ISSN 1850-0013
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.