Chile

Fernando
Barrera

Rural development extension technical cooperation

Biography

Fernando Barrera Arenas is an Agricultural Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Master in Agricultural Sciences and Rural Economy from the Universidad Católica de Louvain (Belgium). He was Head of the Extension Department of the Institute for Agricultural Development (INDAP) and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Latin American Network of Rural Extension Services RELASER. He has been teaching Rural Extension at the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Chile and has published papers on the same subject.

He is currently an Extension Specialist at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, forming part of the team of the IICA Representation in Chile, collaborating in the preparation, design, development and monitoring of cooperation projects for the development of national innovation systems in the field of agricultural extension. He has developed specific technical cooperation actions in Chile, Guatemala, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.

Fellow researchers

Chile

Karla Ivonne Cordero Lara

Rice breeding Rice agronomy Biotechnology Sustainable production
Argentina

Martha Lucrecia Bonell

Genetic resources biotechnology rice breeding
Panama

Jose Alberto Yau

seed production SRI Biologic control plant sciences
Venezuela

Aurelio Amaya

Rice production Soil Sciences
Argentina

Roberto Marano

Irrigation systems Water use efficiency Water resources
Argentina

Cesar Eugenio Quintero

fertilization of extensive crops phosphorus and arsenic dynamics
Costa Rica

Kelly Witkowski

biology Anthropology Climate change Sustainability
Colombia

Eduardo Jose Graterol Matute

plant breeding genetics Research and development
Colombia

Sergio Alejandro Urioste Daza

Applied economics Engineer in Environment rice market
Chile

Galit Rodriguez Pizarro

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis of agricultural information for agricultural planning and management
Sponsors
BID
IICA
With the support of
Fondo Coreano de Alianza para el Conocimiento en Tecnología e Innovación (KPK)