The "Instituto para una Alternativa Agraria" IAA formerly called "Instituto de Apoyo Agraria", was the first organization to adopt Unu Kamachiq Raymi, doing so right after the first tests in PRODERM (see: http://www.sierraproductiva.org/yachachiq/ Home / Yachachiqs)
People play an important role in the history of Pachamama Raymi, so it is interesting to note that the IAA experimented with this new methodology from 1989 under the direction of economist Hugo Wiener Fresco, who also proposed this methodology for the NGO CEDAP in Ayacucho.
Later, Hugo Wiener evaluated the first two years of Pachamama Raymi in PAC-II in Bolivia and contributed to the design of MARENASS. Hugo was also co-founder of DEXCEL.
Over the years, the IAA has developed its own version of Pachamama Raymi, using that same name. Lately, IAA captures much publicity as “Sierra Productiva”, under the direction of Carlos Paredes, recognizing that it is possible to eradicate poverty in the Peruvian Andes.
Most relevant of the Pachamama Raymi methodology, starting with Unu Kamachiq Raymi, is "peer learning", within a motivating environment, of which the most visible element is the contest between participants.
The IAA decided to eliminate the contest, which in the version of IAA was still an brief “event”, a kind of "festival", as it had been in the first version of Unu Kamachiq in PRODERM.
This was how the IAA solved the ineffectiveness of the Unu-Kamachiq-style contest, simply eliminating them. In contrast, PRODERM and other variants of Pachamama Raymi modified the Unu-Kamachiq-style contest, achieving great effectiveness and efficiency in adoption of innovations. By eliminating the contest as a motivator, the methodology of the IAA - Sierra Productive is more like the "farmer-to-farmer” methodology of the National Union of Farmers and Ranchers in Nicaragua (UNAG) since 1989.
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