The Articulation between Research and Extension and the Development of Agriculture

Abstract

This article results from the search for new and more adequate theoretical-methodological approaches to the issue of relations between research and extension in agriculture and cattle-raising, especially from the institutional point of view. The proposal pre sented intends to formulate a pattern of analysis permitting the comprehension of the phenomenon as a structural process with its own dynamics, subject to structural factors, which interfere in those dynamics. The methodological framework, which suggests a critical analysis of the articulation research/extension/producer, concludes with concrete proposals for the process.