Enfoques y Prácticas de Extensión Rural Públicas en el Noreste Argentino ,

Abstract: Extension approaches and practices have changed enormously during the last decades. At the same time, several authors have pointed out the persistence of traditional, diffusionist approaches in extensionists' practices as well as in extension institutions. In this research, extension practices implemented in the Argentine Northeastern region are analyzed and compared with institutional and current academic proposals, aiming to draw useful recommendations. In order to do so, 40 interviews with rural extensionists who work in the public system in the provinces of Chaco, Corrientes, For...