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Identifying, Developing, and Adopting Technologies Appropriate for Rural Development with Applications to Huari Province in Peru Mark Alan Lund Iowa State University Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 1975 Identifying, developing, and adopting technologies appropriate for rural development with applications to Huari Province in Peru Mark Alan Lund Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Agricultural and Resource Economics Commons, and the Agricultural Economics Commons Recommended Citation Lund, Mark Alan, "Identifying, developing, and adopting technologies appropriate for rural development with applications to Huari Province in Peru" (1975). 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Identifying, developing, and adopting technologies appropriate for rural development with applications to Huarl Province In Peru Mark Alan Lund A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Major: Economics Approved: Signature was redacted for privacy. Signature was redacted for privacy. Signature was redacted for privacy. Iowa State University Ames, Iowa Î975 11 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 1 Nature of Rural Development Problems in Less Developed Nations 2 Technologies Appropriate for Rural Development 9 Objectives of Study 10 Method and Procedures I3 Organization of Report 1? CHAPTER II. TECHNOLOGIES APPROPRIATE FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT WITHIN PHYSICAL, ECONOMIC, AND INSTITUTIONAL POSSIBILITIES 18 Rural Development Concept 18 Role of Mass Participation in Rural Development 25 Urgency and Rationale for Rural Development 32 Role of Technology in Rural Development 39 Interrelationships between Technology and Physical, Economic, and Institutional Factors in Rural Development 45 CHAPTER III. THE DELIMITING PHASE RELATED TO THE RDP/LMF-WS IN PERU 52 Reasons for Selecting the Case Study Area 52 RDP/LWF-WS Setting in Peru 57 Delimiting the Problematic Gap within the RDP/LWF-WS Area in Peru 67 CHAPTER IV. DIAGNOSTIC PHASE APPLIED TO THE RDP/LWF-WS AREA IN PERU 80 Four Year History of the Use of Technology for Rural Development in the RDP/LWF-WS Area in Peru 80 Program Procedures for Identifying, Developing, and Adopting Technologies Appropriate for Rural Development in the RDP/tWF-WS Area 98 Failure and Success Elements in the Diagnostic Phase I07 Ill Page CHAPTER V. IDENTIPIC3A.TI0N AND DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES APPROPRIATE FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE RDP/tWF-WS AREA IN PERU . 115 Strengthening Existing Success Elements for Identifying and Developing Technologies in the RDP/LWP-WS in Peru 115 New Success Elements for the Development of Technologies Appropriate for Rural Development 119 The Potential of and Need for Appropriate Technology Research in the RDP/LWF-WS Area 162 CHAPTER VI. ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGIES APPROPRIATE FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE BDP/LWF-WS ABEA IN PERU 16? Strengthening Success Elements for Adopting Appropriate Technologies in the RDP/LWF-WS Area in Peru I67 New Success Elements for the Adoption of Appropriate Technologies for Rural Development I69 Applying New Success Elements for Adopting Appropriate 194 Technologies to the RDP/LWF-WS Area CHAPTER VII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 201 BIBLIOGRAPHY 214. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 219 1 CmPTER I. INTRODUCTION Rural development in less developed nations is receiving much atten­ tion in the 1970*s. In this study, less developed nations are defined as those nations with average annual per capita incomes less than $800. According to 1972 data, this included 84 of the 112 countries with popu­ lations over one million (57f P« 7)» Total population of these 84 countries was,estimated at 2.59 billions (57, p.6). The definition of rural development used in this study is similar to the concept developed by Lele (21, p. 17) and Butterfield (3, p. 2). Rural development is a process by which the rural poor are assisted in im­ proving their levels of output and living on a self-sustaining basis through the method of mass participation. The rural poor are defined in this study as those living outside major cities whose annual per capita income is: 1) below one-third of the annual national per capita Income in their respective countries; or 2) less than $150, There are three major dimensions within the definition of rural de­ velopment which provide important implications for the design and imple­ mentation of rural development programs. These three dimensions treat rural development as an objective, a method, and a process. The objective of maal development is to improve the levels of output and living of the rural poor. The method of rural development involves mass participation of the rural poor in the economic, social, political, and cultural affairs of their country. The process of rural development involves the transi­ tion from low levels of living to high levels of living. Making this 2 process self-sustaining is an important requirement 19, p. 21). Problems treated in this study refer to the identification, develop­ ment, and adoption of technologies which are appropriate for the rural poor to whom rural development is directed. The technologies must ful­ fill the requirements of the objective, method, and process dimensions of ruiral development. The content of this introductory chapter includes five sections. The first section describes the nature of rural development problems in the less developed nations. It emphasizes the magnitude of the rural de­ velopment problems by discussing the total number of the rural poor in less developed nations. Section two introduces the role of technology in rural development and the area of study in Peru. Objectives of the study, and methods and procedures used in pursuing these objectives, com­ prise sections three and four. The last section briefly introduces the six remaining chapters into which the report is organized. Nature of Rural Development Problems in Less Developed Nations Rural development is receiving increasing emphasis today by both less developed nations and international organizations. This increasing em­ phasis on rural development is partially at least, a result of the failure of past development programs, conducted by international and national de­ velopment agencies, to bring improved levels of living to rural poor within less developed nations. Officials of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Develop­ ment (henceforth referred to as the World Bank) have described, in their 3 sector policy paper on rural development, the objectives and failures of development programs to help the rural poor as followsi Past strategies in most developing countries have tended to emphasize national economic growth without specifically con­ sidering the manner in which the benefits of growth per se would lead to improved levels of living of the rural poor as the benefits of am e3cpanding
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