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The “Participatory Certification for Forests”: A Socio-Technical Analysis of a Technology for Social Inclusion in Argentina
Wed, September 4, 4:30 to 6:00pm, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, Floor: Four, Bayside BAbstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze the certification system designed by the National Institute of Agricultural Technology in Argentina called "Participatory Certification for Forests".
The "Participatory Certification for Forests" constitutes a socio-technical mechanism, that allows differentiating products and services from sustainably managed forests. It also promotes the inclusion of small producers and local empowerment through the creation of networks of relationships with the actors of the territories.
It is shown in this paper that the “Participatory Forest Certification” constitutes a complex technology oriented towards social inclusion and sustainable development. It is argued that this Certification does not work only because it solves specific problems linked to guarantee the sustainable and inclusive use of forest resources, but because the networks and alliances in which they are inserted are efficient in generating processes of change and social development.
The theoretical and methodological approach derives from the constructivist perspective of the sociology of technology, whose descriptive and explanatory capacity derives from the possibility of generating an analytical reconstruction of the complex relationships between users and tools, actors and artifacts, institutions and techno-productive systems, ideologies and technological knowledge .
The analytical reconstruction of the “Participatory Forest Certification” allows a better understanding of the process of co-construction of technologies, regulations, ideologies, public policies and dynamics of techno-productive development, and offers new explanations about the functioning / non-functioning of public policies implemented to solve social problems linked to inclusive, sustainable and multiple access to local forest resources.