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Eduardo Ruiz Anzola Jaime A. Aguilar Z. California, May 21st, 2007

Multidisciplinary project with organized agrarian communities seeking to improve rural life quality. Universidad Javeriana Cali - Asociación de Caficultores Orgánicos de Colombia. (ACOC). Eduardo Ruiz Anzola Jaime A. Aguilar Z. California, May 21st, 2007. Outline. General information

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Eduardo Ruiz Anzola Jaime A. Aguilar Z. California, May 21st, 2007

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  1. Multidisciplinary project with organized agrarian communities seeking to improve rural life quality. Universidad Javeriana Cali - Asociación de Caficultores Orgánicos de Colombia. (ACOC) Eduardo Ruiz Anzola Jaime A. Aguilar Z. California, May 21st, 2007

  2. Outline • General information • Project location • Javeriana University, Cali, Colombia • The multidisciplinary project • The problem and the actors • The strategy and multidisciplinary team • Results • First phase of project • Comercial and productive component of the project • Conclusions

  3. Project location

  4. Javeriana University, Cali, Colombia

  5. The problem and the actors Community with weak welfare conditions University Cooperative Rural Families Engineering Faculty Student’s Affairs Office Organic Coffee Teachers Students Cultivation Process Trade

  6. The strategy and multidisciplinary team Establishing interaction objectives University and Cooperative Directors, Engineering Faculty professors Defining initial projects Representatives of cooperative and University research groups Carrying out political and Social workshops Engineering Faculty Professors and students, Sociologist, political scientist and professional communicator Executing the projects Engineering Faculty Professors and students, zone farmers Reporting results Cooperative directors board, Student Affairs directors, Engineering Faculty representatives

  7. First phase of Project

  8. Commercial and productive component of the project

  9. Industrial component

  10. Conclusions • The project has strengthened the interaction of students and professors with rural communities applying the scientific knowledge in the solution of their needs. • The project puts in evidence two aspects: the first one, the multidimensional nature of the project and the second one, the need of multidisciplinarity in order to act effectively in the environment.

  11. Conclusions • The training of the future engineers has been fortified. • The third function of the university: the service to the community, has been evidenced. • It has been verified the advantage to have communities organized to have greater incidence in the work that is carried out by the University.

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