This study is derived from a group research project that explores the social implications of scientific work as it is linked to the larger processes of production and the exercise of democracy. In this context, the present work seeks to contribute to this general theme from the vantage point of observing agricultural production in the region of Latin America. This will empower us to learn more about the effects, the larger potential, and the socio-economic, political and environmental challenges that science and technology represent as applied in the agricultural sector. A broad overview will reflect upon the widespread and heterogeneous penetration of the Corporate Agro-industrial Model (cam) in all of its complexity and shortfalls throughout Latin America. It quickly becomes apparent that the technological paradigm that sustains this model has failed to adequately respond to the problems of social inequality, exclusion, and poverty that typify the region. Our examination can help identify the model’s fissures, structural flaws, limits and excesses, as well as the possibilities it opens for organized social political action at the supranational level. It is a veritable collation of tensions that occurs, both at the outset as well as throughout its development, in which conflicts eventually result that go well beyond rural areas. Both capitalist and peasant economies co-exist across the region of Latin America. Our focus on this occasion will be on the capitalist pole, since it is there where the use and abuse of technological processes in the exploitation of land resources now prevail. While we examine this capitalist pole of production, which is the fastest growing in microeconomic terms and in macroeconomic resonance, we will of course be unable to omit frequent references to the social and natural environments that it cohabits. Our focus on the operations of the foodstuff and agro-industrial corporations is nevertheless justified because they have come to depend upon this scheme of productive organization, supported by the governments of the region, as the most promising avenue to deliver economic prosperity. It is also a central focus because the value and global market prices of agricultural goods are set as a function of their operations. This study is organized into three sections. First, we provide some brief historical notes about the social changes linked to the introduction of new agricultural technologies in Latin America during the Twentieth Century.Then, we offer a working theoretical frame that helps conceptualize the defining elements of the cam. Finally, we set out to analyse in two parts the conflicts being generated by highly profitable but rather absurd modes of production.