For the uninitiated, an all-male panel is exactly what it sounds like: a group of (mostly white) men plunked on stage at a conference, usually under the auspices of being the "experts" in their fields, whether that field is agrarian developments in the Sudan, developments in the music industry, advances in chemical engineering, global banking regulation, or even women's reproductive rights.
Hewing to its socialist goals, the FARC is calling for "integral agrarian development".
The ministry of agrarian development (MDA), a supporter of the family farm sector, has drawn on Brazil's More Food programme, focusing on improving farmers' access to equipment, machinery and agricultural technologies, including tractors, through the provision of concessional credit.
Proposals to divert some of this "investment" towards poverty reduction or agrarian development have been blocked, in keeping with the long-term patterns that continue to shape the distribution of international "aid".
A half million farmers already were in precarious shape because they badly needed roads and electricity and technical help, none of which the financially depleted government could easily afford, Miguel Rossetto, the minister of agrarian development, told me.
The discontinuity of family farms is expected to lead to changes in the organisation of farm production, and consequently to changes in agricultural landscapes and agrarian development.
The Chilean Agency for Agrarian Development (INDAP by its Spanish acronym) was the agency that promoted to replace with PV-powered water pumps existing systems powered by diesel generators.
The groups had previously reached agreements focused on "integral agrarian development" and political participation.
President Enrique Peña Nieto reassigned Murillo Karam to head a little known agency for urban and agrarian development, a dizzying fall from being the country's chief law enforcement officer.
They have consisted of 6 points dealing with 1) Agrarian development; 2) Political participation; 3) Ending the conflict; 4) The illegal drug problem; 5) Victims and 6) Implementation.
The peace negotiations consist of six points dealing with: 1) agrarian development; 2) political participation; 3) ending the conflict; 4) the illegal drug problem; 5) victims and 6) implementation.
