1 / 29

STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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.

vian
Download Presentation

STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Ending Rural Poverty in Bolivia

  2. 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

  3. Farmers on Bolivia’s Altiplano are poor because they have: • Low productivity • Eroded soils and pastures

  4. La Paz Oruro

  5. 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)

  6. What farmers have to do to get out of poverty…

  7. Reclaiming Soils & Pastures -- Digging ditches

  8. Reclaiming Soils & Pastures -- Digging ditches

  9. Reclaiming Soils & Pastures -- Damming gullies

  10. Reclaiming Soils & Pastures -- Damming gullies

  11. Reclaiming Soils & Pastures -- Terracing

  12. Reclaiming Soils & Pastures -- Re-seeding

  13. Reclaiming Soils & Pastures -- Reserving

  14. Reclaiming Soils & Pastures -- Reserving

  15. Reclaiming Soils & Pastures -- Sowing alfalfa

  16. Increasing Productivity -- Selecting/treating cattle

  17. Increasing Productivity -- Digging farm ponds

  18. Increasing Productivity -- Storing fodder

  19. Increasing Productivity -- Constructing stables

  20. Improving Business Management

  21. Improving Business Management

  22. Improving Business Management

  23. “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

  24. “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

  25. 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

  26. Summary: How Can You Help? • Help us begin the Bolivian wool program for 750 families ($55,000 needed)

More Related