This regional scientific centre for agriculture
and natural resources management has the mission of contributing
to sustainable rural development and poverty reduction in tropical
America. In order to achieve so, it has specialised in areas such
as biological pest control, organic agriculture, agricultural
and forestry certification, small and medium-sized rural enterprises,
support to local governments, vulnerability due to natural disasters,
environmental policies and services, weather changes phenomena
and their effect on agriculture
The Centre's regular country members are: Belize,
Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
In several regions of these countries CATIE supports local, national
and regional organisations by enhancing their knowledge basis
through the development of innovations, concepts and methodologies
that provide the experts and future leaders of agricultural sectors
with sound technical training. The Inter-American Institute for
Cooperation and Agriculture (IICA) is also a regular member.
http://www.catie.ac.cr/magazin.asp?CodWebSite=2
INSTITUTO COLOMBIANO DE DESARROLLO RURAL - INCODER (Colombian
Institute of Rural Development)
The mission of the Colombian Institute of Rural
Development consists in facilitating the access to productive
factors, strengthening territorial entities and their communities
and promoting the articulation of institutional actions in the
rural environment in order to contribute to improving the livelihoods
of rural people through mechanisms that may foster decentralisation,
integrity, equity and sustainability.
The focus is on Social Rural Productive Development
through the social ordering of property, inter- and intra-sectoral
coordination processes and the articulation of participatory processes
of institutional, regional and local planning. Interventions aim
at identifying and consolidating rural development focal points
as a framework of productive, economic and social integration.
The institution's objectives also imply promoting
access to land and other productive factors, dissemination of
production alternatives, financial resources management and community
participation through the rural society by means of strengthening
territorial entities and their communities.
http://www.incoder.gov.co/index/index.asp
INSTITUTO NACIONAL PARA EL DESARROLLO DE CAPACIDADES DEL SECTOR
RURAL A. C. - INCA Rural A. C. Mexico (National Institute for
skills development in the rural sector)
INCA Rural A.C. is a Civil Association established
in November 1973 as an enterprise of State majority participation
working as a division of the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock,
Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA, in Spanish).
This institution is oriented to the design, execution
and assessment of intensive training programmes of national scope,
giving top priority to towns and regions with high poverty levels.
It aims at developing capacities in vocational services providers,
rural development coordinators, priority groups, social organisations,
enterprises, federal, State and local public servants so as to
identify opportunity areas and implement development programmes
that may improve productive, commercial, organisational and entrepreneurial
processes.
INCA Rural bolsters and coordinates processes
of participation, non-formal education, training, updating, assessment
and certification that may ensure educational quality and produce
integral rural development. Interventions focus on the development
of rural entrepreneurship and the consolidation of rural social
capital by promoting active participation and network integration.
Another main objective is the dissemination of
public rural policies through information and training processes
that may both facilitate their application and build information
and dissemination networks and channels.
http://www.inca.gob.mx/flash_paginas/home.htm
FOUNDATION FOR THE PROMOTION AND RESEARCH OF ANDEAN PRODUCTS
- PROINPA - Bolivia
PROINPA is a non-profit organisation formed by
public and private entities that generates, promotes and disseminates
technological innovations in order to improve food safety for
poor Bolivian families and the competitiveness of productive chains
of Andean crops. It works to identify the demands made by different
actors of Andean crop productive chains and to generate and validate
technological alternatives.
The institution renders technical and infrastructure
advisory services to carry out research and training actions in
the rural sector, it offers top-quality products (different plant
species, high quality potato seeds and bio controllers) and it
has a laboratory devoted to diagnosing pests and phytosanitary
quarantines, supporting the national rural sector, importers and
exporters and favouring product exchange between countries without
contamination risk.
http://www.proinpa.org/english/news.htm
