The Rural Institutions in Colombia: Reflections for Analysis and Strengthening

• Main Author: Sandro Ropero Beltran
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Nacional de La Plata 2016-09-01
• Series: Mundo Agrario
• Subjects: instituciones rurales; agricultura y globalización; desarrollo rural; nueva ruralidad; Colombia
• Online Access: http://www.mundoagrario.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/5907

The rural question is one of the great challenges for institutions in Colombia. The discussion regarding institutional efficiency and effectiveness for the rural sector should be brought forward based on circumstantial aspects that in turn mediate social the social, political, cultural, environmental, economic and productive in the Colombian agriculture, including trade agreements and post-conflict eventually included. The new rurality as an approach to rural development poses a different view about the subject, conceives the rural thing as a multisectorial and multidimensional space, which is the starting point from which arise the elements of analysis that allow advance an institutional debate broad and participatory facing the structural transformation of the rural reality.