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Six months after announcing its creation, the Rural Innovation
Institute Foundation suspended its activities definitively,
as announced by its Executive Director Jacqueline Ashby.
The promoters of this initiative were the International Center
for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the Colombian Corporation
for Agricultural Research (CORPOICA), and the AlvarAlice Foundation
of Cali, Colombia.
The Foundation's purpose was to ensure that the results of
agricultural research reached the poorest rural communities,
but it was not financially viable.
Dr. Ashby moved to Peru to join the International Potato
Center (CIP), after rendering services to CIAT for almost
20 years. Both centers form part of the Consultative Group
on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
Dr. Ashby is a sociologist who gained international recognition
for having designed a participatory research methodology known
was Local Committees for Agricultural Research or CIALs (for
their Spanish acronym), where farmers work together with scientists
to detect and solve their agricultural problems. This methodology
has been successfully applied in several Latin American countries.
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