Abstract

GUTIERREZ, Omar. Development of methodology Participatory Rural Innovation in the Central Andean region of Colombia. Agron. colomb. [online]. 2010, vol.28, n.3, pp.509-516. ISSN 0120-9965.

This essay delivers new approaches about rural development and some strategies to help them to be successful, as transdisciplinary process where the relationship between entity performing, professional support and farmer organizations, actually works and is a starting point for real progress of the communities rural areas. Participatory Rural Innovation (PRI) was created as a new methodological approach where strategies interacting technical, social and personal growth of communities and entrepreneurial, to seek solutions to real problems of the groups who develop the IRP. This is achieved through proper interaction of farmers with professional accompaniment, where the community decides all aspects to develop and regularly evaluate the strategy and the points where changes should be implemented to strengthen the whole process

Keywords : rural development; participatory research; accompaniment; welfare.

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