Alvarado, Javier; Cajavilca, Juan; Galarza,
Francisco. Prácticas
prometedoras en las finanzas rurales: Perú, Chile y Bolivia
(Promising practices in rural finance: Peru, Chile and Bolivia).
Lima: CEPES, 1999.
This document includes a systematisation of
work experiences on financing rural enterprises by means of
identifying formal and informal institutions that are providing
financial services to rural population. The information is focused
on those institutions that have good prospects of maintaining
and broadening the provision of financial services to rural
areas and also on the ways in which they are tackling problems
such as asymmetric information and the risks that increase costs
and block the provision of financial services to the poorest
rural populations.
Arbab, Farzam. Rural
university: learning about education and development. Ottawa:
IDRC, 1998.
This paper describes a work experience in Colombia
(1974-1982) that entailed developing a rural university. Its
tasks involved beginning the learning processes which covered
three main categories: human resources development, application
of science and strengthening of community structures. At the
heart of the strategies of the rural university there has been
an educational programme to endow the region with a pyramid
of workers in rural well-being: engineers, technicians, and
promoters. This document presents and discusses the details
of this successful educational innovation and provides detailed
experiences of students and their professors while taking part
in these learning processes, especially those concerned with
alternative production systems, associations for production,
spread of technology and marketing systems.
Ashby, Jacqueline et al. Investing
in farmers as researchers. Experience with Local Agricultural
Research Committees in Latin America Cali: ICTA, 2001.
By integrating work experiences in the Andean
and Central American communities, this publication highlights
the main strengths and weaknesses of poor rural population when
beginning development processes and taking part in Local Agricultural
Research Committee (CIAL) where farmers play the role of researchers.
The activities and the way these committees work are described
by analysing the main areas of intervention.
Baranyi, Stephen; Deere, Carmen Diana; Morales,
Manuel. Scoping
Study on Land Policy Research in Latin America. Ottawa:
The North South Institute; IDRC, 2004.
After carrying out a study commissioned by the
International Development Research Centre (IDRC), this document
suggests that Latin America may not be ready for a radical transformation
regarding land policies. There is therefore an analysis of aspects
and themes such as market-oriented reforms, the efforts to articulate
local and national land policy initiatives, the links between
land policy and armed conflict, etc. The purpose is to offer
a view of contexts, actors and research opportunities on policies
focusing particularly on Brazil, the Andes and Central America.
Foundation for the Promotion and Research of
Andean Products (PROINPA). Local
Agricultural Research Committees (CIAL in Spanish): a research
alternative in peasants' communities. Cochabamba: PROINPA,
2002.
This document by the Foundation for the Promotion
and Research of Andean products (PROINPA) gives an account of
Local Agricultural Research Committees (CIAL) by providing information
about the core elements and processes for the achievement of
their goals. Among other things, it describes their working
methodology and the way in which roles in order to get farmers
involved in the tasks of the Committees.
Macagno, Luis. Identificación
de prioridades: Hacia una propuesta metodológica que
compatibilice intereses de investigación a nivel regional
y subregional (Identifying priorities: Towards a methodology
that matches regional and subregional research interests). Washington:
IDB. Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology, 1997.
The region of Latin America and the Caribbean
shows comparative advantages due to its natural resources and
its exportable surplus but it requires improving the competitiveness
of primary and agroindustrial products by means of a productive
and technological modernisation. This paper presents a methodology
that gives priority to issues of common interest that should
include an information system that may technically justify funding
decisions.
Moscardi, Edgardo. Agricultura
y ciencia: desde conceptos de corta visión a oportunidades
para fortalecer la competitividad y reducir la pobreza (
Agriculture and science: from misconceptions to opportunities
for strengthening competitiveness and reducing poverty). Washington:
FONTAGRO, 2000
This publication contains four documents produced
by the Technical Secretary of FONTAGRO during 1999-2000. Among
the issues tackled, they highlight short-term concepts of agriculture,
the introduction of FONTAGRO as a regional programme, the different
opportunities for international agricultural research that exist
in Latin America and the Caribbean and the importance of international
government properties within the rural sector of such region.
They also comment on the poor use of the opportunities offered
by modern science and technology in order to contribute to the
resolution of problems related to the availability of food,
health and education.
Ostertag Gálvez, Carlos Felipe. Identifying
and Assessing Market Opportunities for Small Rural Producers:
tools for decision making in natural resource management.
Cali: ICTA; COSUDE; IDRC; IDB, 1999.
Traditionally, rural development has lacked
an entrepreneurial approach because it has given priority to
the search of options to market its produce, without studying
the market demand to offer other alternatives of agricultural
production. This handbook is a tool that offers market orientation
to small rural producers, located in a given microregion. It
describes a methodology that aims to identify, assess, and take
advantage of market opportunities.
Documents produced by BEAF
of the GTZ
Baur, Henning and others. Establishing
plausibility in impact assessment. Eschborn: GTZ. BEAF,
2001.
This paper demonstrates the importance of establishing
plausible linkages between the development of cooperation interventions
and the relevant changes observed when assessing impact. Experience
has shown that impact evaluations often try to prove or quantify
impact using too many significant factors that make it difficult
to isolate the effects of a single intervention. This document
suggests an analysis of the difficulties and possibilities of
solving such inconveniences.
