Sistematización del proyecto “Mejora de las condiciones alimenticias y económicas de la población rural de Zamora a través del aumento de la producción lechera en sistemas agroforestales” desde el enfoque del autodesarrollo comunitario

The investigation focused on systemizing the project named “Improvement of nutritive conditions and economics of the rural population of Zamora, through incrementing the dairy production in agroforestry systems”. Parting from the concept of community self-development as the prime axes of systemization. A tool that permits us to contribute to the improvement experiences based on new reflexions for corrective processes. This study is structured as follows: In the initial part we synthesize the subjects of the present investigation. Continued by an introduction, in which the importance and benefits of the investigation are pointed out. In the third chapter reflects a detailed literature revision. The revision is organized based on the criteria and contents of the work several authors to discuss the theory of community self-development and applied to the investigation at hand. In chapter four the methodology and materials used are described. Chapter five details the results of the investigation constituting the core activity of the investigation discussing the obtained information and crosschecking it for the different stages within the systematization. The phases of systematization used are as follows: To better understand the living situation, in the reconstruction of the experience, a description of the studied practice is given. The analyses, consists of the organization of the information and its analyses in two separate tables taking descriptive reflections of the social worker and the participants. In the interpretation that follows, a written synthesis is elaborated based on an integrated analyses of both tables. In the conceptualizing and generalizing phase, we reflect on the presence of community quality, analyzing every single component of the project and considering each and every single variable of the community self-development process. The conclusions, in the studied project experience, determine the absence of community self-development. As limitations for the experimented products of the project we observe de following: the social facilitator introduced new dairy farming techniques to be implemented by the project beneficiaries. These introduced techniques were based on criteria of the facilitator and not in sink with the proposed semi-stabling practices of the project, which provokes friction with the traditional management procedures practiced routinely by the local dairy farmers. Also the help given in the form of: Mineral salt, pasture seeds, barbwire for pasture field divisions, cement, a pasture and sugarcane shredder, motivated a considerable number of beneficiaries to participate in the project. These however are financial assistances which are not considered productive within the concept of community self-development. The meetings organized by the facilitators only serve to evaluate the advances in project execution, leaving aside the criteria of the dairy farmers to resolve their actually dairy farming problems in the region. The chapter proposals; consists of an last phase of the study that synthesizes the alternative solutions for corrective processes to the project experience, which will permit to improve our interventions to manage community self-development processes. Based on the results of this systemization, a body of proposals for the VI phase “Proposals” is developed. Part sixth gives the general conclusions of the current investigation, followed by the recommendations in function of the conclusions established. Part eight includes the bibliography with the authors and titles which forms the theoretically foundation of our work. Chapter nine contains the annexes with tables and field data registers.

• Main Author: Piedra Jimbo, Gustavo Gonzalo (author)
• Format: masterThesis
• Language: spa
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/8149