Abstract

ZAMBADA-MARTINEZ, Andrés et al. Network for institutional and organizational articulation to manage innovation in the region of Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. agric. soc. desarro [online]. 2013, vol.10, n.4, pp.443-458. ISSN 1870-5472.

In the region of Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, a Network for Institutional and Organizational Articulation (Red de Articulación Institucional y Organizacional, RAIO) was formed to improve the relationships of collaboration, cooperation and ssociation between institutions and organizations involved in a proposal of institutional intervention that dealt with the carce technological innovation in the economic and social evelopment of small-scale hillside farmers, with the agroecologic technology of milpa interspersed with fruit trees (MIAF, for its initials in Spanish), promoted with participatory strategies in order to improve knowledge and comprehension mong producers, and to become the basis for innovation in the face of conditions that complicate its transference, such as scarce inter-institutional coordination. Institutions were invited to ntegrate the RAIO, an essential part of the proposal, generating ew levels of relationship among them. With the social network analysis (SNA), relationship structures were compared in two moments, "before the proposal" and "with the proposal", to dentify actors and the ties generated. It is concluded that the RAIO was integrated by eight institutional actors that promoted development and natural resource conservation, structured as a emporary network that strengthened the relationships between ctors and generated synergies to improve family production systems, and that the management of innovations for economic and social development of the rural sector in Los Tuxtlas is a complex process socially, institutionally and organizationally.

Keywords : institutional actors; social network analysis; economic and social development; levels of relationship; proposal for intervention.