STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Ending Rural Poverty in Bolivia
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How do poor farmers increase their incomes?
An Example from Bolivia’s Altiplano
Dairy and Beef in the Northern AltiplanoAlpaca and Llama in the Southern Altiplano
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• Low productivity
• Eroded soils and pastures
Farmers on Bolivia’s Altiplano are poor because they have:
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In SID’s first project in Bolivia, 1,630 dairy farmers:
• Increased income by 64% ($904 to $1,452)• Increased milk productivity from 5.6 to 11.3 quarts• Reclaimed 3,935 acres by digging water infiltration
ditches, damming gullies, and re-seeding pastures• Reclaimed 173 acres of hillside land by terracing• Reclaimed 35,338 acres by putting pastures into
reserve• Sowed 3,836 acres of alfalfa (2.4 acres / family)
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RECLAIM SOILS & PASTURES
INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY OF
DAIRY CATTLE
IMPROVE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Dig water retention ditches
Dam gullies Terrace hillside land Re-seed pastures Create pasture
reserves Sow alfalfa
Improve animal selection
Vaccinate cows Dose cattle for
internal parasites Dig farm ponds Cut and store fodder Construct stables,
shelter cows at night
Assess markets Meet, negotiate with
major buyers Make business plans Switch to higher
value products (cheese, yogurt) when possible
What farmers have to do to get out of poverty…
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Digging ditches
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Digging ditches
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Damming gullies
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Terracing
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Re-seeding Pastures
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Reserving Pastures
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Reserving Pastures
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Sowing alfalfa
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Selecting and Treating Cattle
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Digging farm ponds
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Storing fodder
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Constructing stables
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Improving Business Management
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61% Increase in Dairy IncomesSID Participants 1997 - 2001
$2,032
$1,452
$1,206$1,034
$904
$0
$500
$1,000
$1,500
$2,000
$2,500
1997 1998 1999 2001 2007 (Est.)
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Bolivia: Pilot Wool Project -- Llamas
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Pilot Wool Project – Requests, Results
• Reclaiming eroded pastures and bofedales• Changing to more white-wooled animals• Increasing the productivity of their animals• Developing better links with markets
1,600 alpaca and llama farmers have requested SID’s assistance in
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The Plains of Sajama
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Bofedal
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Mount Sajama, the Main Road to Chile
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Bolivia’s Llamas -- The First Project Beneficiaries
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How You Can Help
• In 2008, we would like to start a Bolivian wool project to benefit 750 families
Cost: $70,000 ($93 / family)
Raised: $15,000
Needed: $55,000
• Help us begin the Bolivian wool program for 750 families ($55,000 needed)
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“They [Competitions] are a good incentive to…motivate us. Someone makes progress and we want to make even more progress.” Sandalia Flores (Bolivia)
“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 (Bolivia)
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“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 (Bolivia)