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Sociological Analysis of Small Ruminant Production
Systems in Peru
Principal Investigator
University of Missouri-Columbia
Michael F.Nolan
M. F. Nolan, Department of Rural Sociology, 269 Agriculture Building, University of Missouri,
Columbia, Missouri, 65211
Collaborating Scientists
M. E.FermAndez, Research Scientist, UMC
C. M. McCorkle, Research Scientist, UMC
U.S. Institution
University of Missouri-Columbia
Host Country Institution
Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agropecuaria y Agroindustrial (INIAA), Apartado 110097,
Lima, Peru
Summary
With the phase-down in Peru, the objective
has been to complete all data analysis and
publish the findings of the sociology project.
This has included the publication and dissemination
of the Peru techpack ImprovingAndean
Sheep and Alpaca Production: Recommendations
from a Decade ofResearch in Peru.
Research Results
Objectives
The main objective during this final year
of phase-down in Peru has been to complete all
data analysis and to synthesize and publish the
findings from Sociology Project research during
its decade of involvement in the country.
Project Progress and Achievements
A major highlight of this wind-up effort
has been the 1990 publication and broad-based
dissemination (in both English and Spanish) of
the Peru techpack, Improving Andean Sheep and
Alpaca Production: Recommendationsfrom a
Decadeof Research in Peru. This effort was
headed up by the Sociology Project. Many other
publications also reached print during 1989-90,
including seven Spanish-language monographs,
for which Sociology had coordinating responsibility.
These were widely disseminated in Peru
among interested parties such as AID, PVOs
and NGOs, lIAA, and other groups. Finally,
Sociology played a coordinating role in exploring
future outlets for popular and extensionoriented
publication of SR-CRSP findings in the
Peruvian development magazine Minka.
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