ABSTRACT
This chapter treats the human capital and science base for Ecuadorian agriculture as one of the principal sets of inputs necessary for sustained increases in agricultural productivity. Limited investments have been made in the science base and rural, primary education. The three investment targets which increase agricultural productivity-land improvements and other internal capital accumulations, human capital and a science base and modern industrial inputs--are interactive and improvements in one tends to enhance investments in another. Such investments are highly complementary to those in human capital and a science base and modern industrial inputs and are very important given Ecuador's limited agricultural land. To realize the potential benefits of such investments will require, however, major investments in complementary human capital and a science base for the sector and macroeconomic and sectoral policies that will assure efficient technical change and a supply of modern, industrial inputs.
