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IV FORO TEMÁTICO REGIONAL
COSECHANDO OPORTUNIDADES: DESARROLLO RURAL EN EL SIGLO XXI
Costa Rica 19 - 21 Octubre 2004

TUESDAY, 19

8:30— Registration (Salón Juan Vásquez)

9:00 - 9:30— Plenary Session
Opening and Welcome
David de Ferranti, Vice President of the World Bank, Latin America and the Caribbean Region
Speech: (27 KB)

Representative of the Government of Costa Rica
Rodolfo Coto, Minister of Agriculture

Presentation of Participants
Objectives and Expectations

9:30 - 10:15— Plenary Session: Ideas for an Initial Analysis Rural Development in the Context of National Development (Salón Juan Vásquez)
Rebeca Grynspan, Director of the Subregional Office of ECLAC, Mexico
Presentation: (248 kb)

10:15 - 11:00— Open Discussion (Salón Juan Vásquez)

11:00 - 11:30— Coffee

11:30 - 12:10— Plenary Session: Challenges of Rural Development in the 21st Century (Salón Juan Vásquez)
Representantive from Civil Society
Efraín Valadán, President, Federación Rural de Jóvenes del Uruguay
Presentation: (134 kb)

Guillermo Perry, Chief Economist of the World Bank, Latin America and the Caribbean Region (64kb)
Presentation: (64kb)

12:10 - 1:00— Debate (Salón Juan Vásquez)

1:00 - 2:30— Lunch
Tables by country/sub-regions (Restaurante Porte Couchere)

2:30 - 4:30—Working Groups on Case Studies: "From Rural Development to National Development"
Each group will focus on analyzing a case study based on the following five dimensions: (i) Access to Markets; (ii) Institutional Framework/Governance; (iii) Financing; (iv) Capacity of Various Actors; y (v) Mechanisms for Monitoring and Evaluation.

Session A: Land Tenure (Salón Juan Vásquez)
Case: " Process of Agrarian Reform in Brasil"
Guilherme Delgado and Eugenio Peixoto
Presentation: (338 kb)
Case: (31 kb)


Session B: Access to Infrastructure (Salón Cabildo 1)
Case: "Rural Roads in Nicaragua"
Harold Cardoza andJairo Molina
Presentation: (87 kb)
Case: (29 kb)

Session C: Human Capital (Salón Cabildo 2)
Case: "School and Coffee - Colombia"
Pablo Jaramillo
Presentation: (1,115 kb)
Case: (39 kb)

Session D: Natural Resource Management (Salón Cabildo 3)
Case: "Water Management in La Laguna, Mexico"
Elías García
Case: (20 kb)

Session E: Rural Research and Extension (Salón San Antonio)
Case: "Territorial Development, Rural Extension and Knowledge Management in Costa Rica"
Jorge Mora
Presentation: (698 kb)
Case: (29 kb)

Session F: Migration (Salón Bar Rocas)
Case: "Education and Migration in Ecuador"
María Andrade
Presentation: (141 kb)
Case: (48 kb)


4:30 - 5:00— Coffee

5:00 - 6:00— Open Discussion (Salón Juan Vásquez)

7:00 p.m.— Cocktail (Porte Couchere)

8:30 p.m.— Dinner (Porte Couchere)

WEDNESDAY, 20

8:00 AM— Departure from Hotel

8:30— Visit to InBio Park
Site visit and working groups

12:00 - 1:00— Lunch in InBio Park

1:30— Return to Hotel

2:15 - 3:00— Territorial Rural Development (Salón Juan Vásquez)
Alain de Janvry, Professor, Agriculture and Economic Resources
University of California, Berkeley
Presentation: (178 KB)
Paper: (288 kb)

3:00 - 3:45—Open Discussion

3:45 - 4:30— Coffee

4:30 - 6:00— Working Groups
The participants will work in groups analyzing the following dimensions of Rural Development, based on the lessons learned from the case studies and the plenary discussions:

• Access to Markets (Salón Juan Vásquez)
• Institutional Framework/Governance (Salón Cabildo 1)
• Financing (Salón Cabildo 2)
• Capacity (Salón Cabildo 3)
• Mechanisms for Monitoring and Evaluation (Salón San Antonio)

8:00— Dinner and Cultural Activity (Restaurante Porte Couchere)

THURSDAY, 21

9:00 - 10:00— Future Challenges (Salón Juan Vásquez)
David de Ferranti, David de Ferranti, Vice President of the World Bank, Latin America and the Caribbean Region
Presentation: ( 20 kb)
Speech: (13 kb)

Rural Development from the Civil Society Perspective (Salón Juan Vásquez)
Manuel Chiriboga, RIMISP
Presentation: (2,170 kb)

10:00 - 10:30— Coffee

10:30 - 12:00 PM— Working Groups (by country): Steps Towards the Future (Salón Juan Vásquez)
The participants will analyze their national contexts and define opportunities for rural development in their countries.

12:00 - 1:00— Plenary Session

1:00 - 1:30— Evaluation and Closing (Salón Juan Vásquez)

1:30— Lunch (Restaurante Porte Couchere)