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Moderated conference on rural advisory services for family farms: 1-18 December 2014

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My name is Dick López Heredia, from Perú. I am a biologist, an agronomist with specialization in plant health and agricultural economy from the Universidad Agraria “La Molina” a doctoral candidate in education. 



For 20 years, I work linked to the development of small farmers. In that time, there are few changes in productivity - coffee 12 quintales per hectare since then, cocoa 500 Kg per hectare and one feels responsible. I have not seen a serious agricultural extension scheme in Peru since the 1990s , and they're replicas of models brought in from outside, just a few failed attempts and successful light flashes, there is no clear formula that not only expect the it is because we have to accommodate different contexts (Jerod Myers - Message 2).



For some years I have been with the Centro de Desarrollos Andragogicos para la Extension (CEDAE), a non-profit organization for extension, to intervene with these small farmers that make family farming. We start with a format of extension based on competencies: Transfer ..Capacity Development... Support ... supported with information. All processes are based on the neuroeducación. This formula has given us interesting results. Thinking about an adaptation of family agriculture extension, it should be from a base form which allows us to compare interventions.



In the industry we say "A greater variability, lower quality". I think that happens and has happened to extension services. In discussing the issue of adaptation I emphasize, we must adapt from what? i.e. What model do we think to adapt? Then answer, to what extent adapt? How to adapt? There are areas in Latin America and Asia and Africa (for example) where we have to say: "Not to live in the countryside you are a farmer". Perhaps at other times. But in today's world, being a farmer is not a rural resident, there are skills needed and whether these are reduced it is not possible to do agriculture. Therefore, not all who have a piece of land are farmers... and we would have to correct our statistics. Cooperative organizations and associations they belong to do not represent a strategy for personal development - they are an aid to economic type, but not social. The organization helps the "personal development" before recipe extension, but this depends on the nature of the management of the organization.



Extension efforts often prove futile for impoverished farmers. We have tried for a few years previous personal development programs for outreach programs. The extension does not solve everything . Previous programs "Personal Rural Development", which by the way do not focus on generic skills level of rural people to urban dwellers, but empower them to develop are those which deserve outreach programs. It will not be that family farming requires other services that the extension has been unable to them. Why not think of a specialized service for family farming and not think about adapting a service like extension that is so hackneyed and drawing held by non-educators with good intentions. 



Dick Lopez Heredia

Accion Participativa Comunal

Centro de Desarrollos Andragogicos para la Extension 

Lima 

Perú 

http://accionparticipativa.org/cedae.htm 

e-mail: dicklopez4444 (at) gmail.com



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