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STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Ending Rural Poverty in Bolivia. How do poor farmers increase their incomes?. An Example from Bolivia’s Altiplano. Dairy and Beef in the Northern Altiplano Alpaca and Llama in the Southern Altiplano.

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STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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  1. STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Ending Rural Poverty in Bolivia

  2. How do poor farmers increase their incomes? An Example from Bolivia’s Altiplano Dairy and Beef in the Northern Altiplano Alpaca and Llama in the Southern Altiplano

  3. Farmers on Bolivia’s Altiplano are poor because they have: • Low productivity • Eroded soils and pastures

  4. 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)

  5. What farmers have to do to get out of poverty…

  6. Digging ditches

  7. Digging ditches

  8. Damming gullies

  9. Terracing

  10. Re-seeding Pastures

  11. Reserving Pastures

  12. Reserving Pastures

  13. Sowing alfalfa

  14. Selecting and Treating Cattle

  15. Digging farm ponds

  16. Storing fodder

  17. Constructing stables

  18. Improving Business Management

  19. Bolivia: Pilot Wool Project -- Llamas

  20. Pilot Wool Project – Requests, Results 1,600 alpaca and llama farmers have requested SID’s assistance in • Reclaiming eroded pastures and bofedales • Changing to more white-wooled animals • Increasing the productivity of their animals • Developing better links with markets

  21. The Plains of Sajama

  22. Bofedal

  23. Mount Sajama, the Main Road to Chile

  24. Bolivia’s Llamas -- The First Project Beneficiaries

  25. 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)

  26. “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)

  27. “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)

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