Organizational Model Design for Small Coffee Farmers in the Municipality of Viotá - Colombia Case Study: Creo en el Agro

Velásquez-Rodríguez, Camilo; Durán, Luisa Fernanda Payán

doi:10.1007/s11213-021-09557-w

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“…Besides improving their own technical skills and infrastructure, these programmes and incentives should also enable (young) farmers to invest and diversify their land use and labour activities into more profitable and sustainable agricultural and non-agricultural businesses, including coffee quality improvement, direct product sales, processing of agricultural products, and/or agritourism, among others. As suggested by many respondents, this empowerment could be fostered within strengthened and functional farmer cooperatives, as also mentioned in similar studies [78][79][80][81].…”

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“…For instance, the empowerment of and support for family farming would need a combination of different programmes and instruments, such as economic and technical support, incentives (e.g., microcredits), and education and/or training by the local authorities (the National Training Centre (SENA) and the National Centre for Research on Coffee (Cenicafé, part of the FNCC)), among others. These incentives and programmes should continue to target potential young farmers to stay in rural areas working the land while limiting their permanent migration to the cities and the ongoing deagrarianisation of the region [21,78]. Besides improving their own technical skills and infrastructure, these programmes and incentives should also enable (young) farmers to invest and diversify their land use and labour activities into more profitable and sustainable agricultural and non-agricultural businesses, including coffee quality improvement, direct product sales, processing of agricultural products, and/or agritourism, among others.…”

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Options to Support Sustainable Trajectories in a Rural Landscape: Drivers, Rural Processes, and Local Perceptions in a Colombian Coffee-Growing Region

Valbuena¹,

Chenet

Gaitán‐Cremaschi

2021

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Trajectories of many rural landscapes in Latin America remain unsustainable. Options to support sustainable rural trajectories should be comprehensive and rooted in the interests of rural actors. We selected a municipality in a coffee-growing region in Colombia with an increasing urban–rural nexus to describe interactions between rural processes and their drivers while identifying and contextualising the perceptions of local actors on major constraints and opportunities for more inclusive and sustainable rural trajectories. We described these interactions by combining secondary data on main drivers, agricultural census data, and interviews with different local actors. Changes in population structure, volatility in coffee prices, in-/out-migration, deagrarianisation, and rurbanisation, among others, are reconfiguring the rural trajectories of the study area. Despite not being a major coffee region, farmers in the study area have developed different strategies, including intensification, diversification, replacement or abandonment of coffee production, and commercialisation. The perceptions of local actors and the multiplicity of agricultural households, food/land use systems, rural processes, and drivers described in this study suggest that more sustainable rural transitions need to be supported by inclusive, integrated, and transformative landscape planning approaches that align with local priorities. However, this transformation needs to be accompanied by changes at a systemic level that address the fundamental bottlenecks to real sustainability.

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confidence: 69%

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confidence: 99%

Options to Support Sustainable Trajectories in a Rural Landscape: Drivers, Rural Processes, and Local Perceptions in a Colombian Coffee-Growing Region

Valbuena¹,

Chenet

Gaitán‐Cremaschi

2021

Sustainability

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“…The outcome of VSD is an agenda for debate that guides stakeholder discussions toward improving organizational arrangements. The principles of VSD systemically envision stakeholders (Hildbrand and Bodhanya 2014) as actors 'involved in and affected by' (Churchman 1971(Churchman , 1979Ulrich 1994), in our case, the process of treating orthopedic patients. Stakeholders with different roles and responsibilities tend to emphasize different issues (Guldbrandsen 2010).…”

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Systemic Problem Structuring in a Complex Hospital Environment using Viable System Diagnosis – Keeping the Blood Flowing

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Finnestrand

Flood

2021

Syst Pract Action Res

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This article presents the application of the systemic problem structuring approach Viable System Diagnosis (VSD) within the Department of Orthopedic Surgery in a large hospital in Norway. It explains why systemic thinking is relevant to this uniquely complex form of human organization. The department was coping with systemic dysfunction and VSD was chosen because previous applications demonstrated VSD excels at diagnosis of what is causing dysfunction. VSD was employed through a participatory framework that included in the process, among other stakeholders, medics, technologists, managers, administrators and, as far as possible given the sensitive nature of patient information, the patient. VSD guided thinking about what the organization is set up to do and the existing organizational arrangements to achieve that. The outcome was an agenda for debate that guided stakeholder discussions toward ways and means of improving organizational arrangements. The article briefly reviews previous applications of VSD in the hospital sector and other large complex organisations.

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Organizational Model Design for Small Coffee Farmers in the Municipality of Viotá - Colombia Case Study: Creo en el Agro

Cited by 2 publications

References 10 publications

Options to Support Sustainable Trajectories in a Rural Landscape: Drivers, Rural Processes, and Local Perceptions in a Colombian Coffee-Growing Region

Options to Support Sustainable Trajectories in a Rural Landscape: Drivers, Rural Processes, and Local Perceptions in a Colombian Coffee-Growing Region

Systemic Problem Structuring in a Complex Hospital Environment using Viable System Diagnosis – Keeping the Blood Flowing

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