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STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Ending Rural Poverty in Bolivia. How do poor farmers increase their incomes?. An Example from Bolivia’s Altiplano. Dairy and Beef in the Northern Altiplano Alpaca and Llama in the Southern Altiplano.
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STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Ending Rural Poverty in Bolivia
How do poor farmers increase their incomes? An Example from Bolivia’s Altiplano Dairy and Beef in the Northern Altiplano Alpaca and Llama in the Southern Altiplano
Farmers on Bolivia’s Altiplano are poor because they have: • Low productivity • Eroded soils and pastures
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In SID’s first project in Bolivia, 1,630 dairy farmers: • Increased income by 61% ($904 to $1,452) • Increased milk productivity from 5.3 to 10.7 liters • Reclaimed 1,593 hectares by digging water infiltration ditches, damming gullies, and re-seeding pastures • Reclaimed 70 hectares of hillside land by terracing • Reclaimed 17,431 hectares by putting pastures into reserve • Sowed 1,553 hectares of alfalfa (1 ha / family)
“They [Competitions] are a good incentive to…motivate us. Someone makes progress and we want to make even more progress.” Sandalia Flores “I have won alfalfa seeds and have planted 3 additional hectares. Without competitions it would have taken me a lot of time to be able to do this, or maybe I would never have been able to do it.” Edmundo Flores
“We need more people to help us… When we don't have seeds, we just plant whatever type of onion and alfalfa seed we have and the result is bad.We want to start from the ground up, so that's why we need help.” “Most everything I do I learned from SID's projects…Thanks to SID, I was able to grow more alfalfa because I had better seed. I was also able to repair this land here.” Mauricio Copa Lima
How can you help? • Help us initiate the Bolivian wool pilot project to benefit 750 families Cost: $70,000 ($93 / family) Raised: $15,000 Needed: $55,000 • Length of project: 1 year
Summary: How Can You Help? • Help us begin the Bolivian wool program for 750 families ($55,000 needed)