Agronomía Colombiana (Nov 2010)

Contribución de la actualización de competencias de los agricultores en la mitigacion de pobreza: Caso de la mancomunidad chorti, Copán Honduras

  • Rivas Guzman Alvaro,
  • Avendaño Pablo Enrique,
  • Quin Heimar

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 3
pp. 567 – 575

Abstract

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: ";MinionPro-Regular";,";serif";; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: MinionPro-Regular;" lang="EN-US">The Copan department of Honduras has a low Human Development Index (HDI 0.56) but it is very rich in hydric resources, all ranges in temperature, ecosystems, agricultural and livestock biodiversity, and rural knowledge because its original Mayan ethnic groups (Chorti and Lencas, and mixed race peasants).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: ";MinionPro-Regular";,";serif";; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: MinionPro-Regular;" lang="EN-US">This article analyzes and evaluates the strategies used in the components of rural production and management of the basin of the Project ‘Local Self-managed Development for Poverty</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: ";MinionPro-Regular";,";serif";; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: MinionPro-Regular;" lang="EN-US">Reduction in North Copán, Honduras’ (NCP) that worked with the Multifunctional Agriculture (MFA) approach between 2003 and 2007. The main results were: To promote agro-ecological management innovations, creation of two funds to improve the farmers production, environmental protection of the basins, to consider the hydric and eco-systemic services in the management of the territory, to reassess social learning systems as the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>extension methodology “farmer to farmer”.</span><span style="font-family: ";MinionPro-Regular";,";serif";; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: ";MinionPro-Regular";,";serif";; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: MinionPro-Regular;" lang="EN-US"></span></p>