Rural Development and Extension

Emma Sofía Corredor Camargo, ; Edwin Manuel Páez Barón, ; Jorge Armando Fonseca Carreño,

Synopsis

The book presented below is the result of research works carried out by the authors with rural and family farming communities in Colombia. It presents a look for a new model of rural development and the country's agricultural sector, in which the basic parameters for reconstructing the rural context as a scenario that generates productive opportunities from the sustainable use of the environmental offer; generating the appropriate technology; increasing the capacities of individuals, families, and rural community where is strengthened the idiosyncrasy and the cultural heritage of farmers, indigenous, and Afro-descendants communities for promoting better living conditions and well-being are proposed. This is possible by incorporating, among other aspects, a new conception of education for rural agricultural activities, that is, by exchanging the concepts of "rural extension," its intentions, and traditional methodologies for others that explicitly incorporate the social imaginary of the rural population, its relationship with the natural environment, and the valuation of its traditional practices and techniques. The following three chapters expose in detail some elements contributing to a new view of the environmental dimension of family farming, expressed by Ángel Maya as the ecosystem-culture relation, thus becoming the space where symbolic structure, socioeconomic organization, and technological platform of millions of rural families throughout Latin America converge.

Keywords: agriculture, rural development, public policy, food production, natural resources

Chapters

  • Prólogo
  • Capítulo 1 Desarrollo rural participativo
  • Capítulo 2 Extensión rural para la agricultura familiar campesina
  • Capítulo 3 Proyectos productivos de desarrollo rural

ISBN-13 (15)

978-958-651-731-7

Fecha de publicación (01):

2019-12-01
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How to Cite

Corredor Camargo, E. S., Páez Barón, E. M. P. B., & Fonseca Carreño, J. A. (2019). Rural Development and Extension. Sello Editorial UNAD. https://doi.org/10.22490/9789586517317

Categories Research Book

Published

December 1, 2019