Knowledge and innovation management Local Network for local development

This study, from an integrative approach, intervenes in international and national academic debate about knowledge management for local agricultural development. Performs an updated systematization of representative theoretical referents on local agricultural development and knowledge management that justifies the role of the former as a conditioning factor, recognizing the responsibility of municipal governments with their subordinate entities that are the articulators and main actors of these processes, where community should prevail as one of its essential qualities The methodology applied helped to diagnose the conditions expressed in the potentials and the most important obstacles existing in the municipal agricultural environment, which the local government must evaluate to implement knowledge management actions in the conformation of the strategy of local agricultural development.