Hacia una extensión rural fundada en el diálogo sinérgico de saberes: campesinos y extensionistas construyendo juntos.

As a contribution to the current discussion about rural extension and its approaches, from a critical-analytical perspective, the article discusses a main theme: the need to move towards a rural extension based on synergistic dialogue and concerted action between farmers and rural extensionists, under conditions of epistemic horizontality. Confronting the vertical and dialogic approaches, trends between which the extensionist practices oscillates, three basic axes of analysis are proposed: a) the differences between transferring technology and coconstructing knowledge to solve situated problems, b) the recognition of the complementarity between scientific and peasant knowledge, and c) the dialogue of knowledge as the basis for joint and concerted action. It is concluded that combining multiple knowledge systems, the scientist and the peasant, in this case, contributes to strengthening the cognitive store today socially available to respond to agrarian problematics situations of different nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]