A fines del mes pasado, se llevó a cabo la Con­fer­en­cia Inter­na­cional de la Sociedad de Dinámica de Sis­temas (Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence of the Sys­tem Dynam­ics Soci­ety) en la ciu­dad de Wash­ing­ton, Esta­dos Unidos.

En esta opor­tu­nidad, Jimmy Car­los Rio­jas y Alexan­der Acuña, dos tesis­tas de pre­grado de la espe­cial­i­dad de Inge­niería Indus­trial de la Uni­ver­si­dad Nacional de Inge­niería pre­sen­taron un paper tit­u­lado “Pub­lic Poli­cies Assess­ment to Improve the Small Agri­cul­tural Pro­ducer Profit”, el cual logró ser selec­cionado entre otros tra­ba­jos de difer­entes países.

Copi­amos a con­tin­uación el abstract del paper en men­ción. El con­tenido com­pleto estará disponible pronto. Felic­ita­ciones, muchachos.

“Tra­di­tional agri­cul­ture is the main source of national food com­petes with imported prod­ucts and mostly made by small pro­duc­ers. In recent decades,various poli­cies have been imple­mented to sup­port this type of farm­ing, such as improv­ing yields through new seed vari­eties. After trade open­ing in 1990, thiswas affected by import prod­ucts, there­fore was adopted mech­a­nisms for pro­tec­tion and price sta­bi­liza­tion. On the other hand, in this decade, pub­lic spend­ing in infra­struc­ture increased sub­stan­tially vial. How­ever, sev­eral stud­iesshow that the sit­u­a­tion of small farm­ers in this agri­cul­ture has improved just slightly despite the fact that for exam­ple the pol­icy of improv­ing vari­eties has­been suc­cess­ful in increas­ing yield improve­ment. The pur­pose of this research is to ana­lyze the dynamic effects of the prin­ci­pal poli­cies in sup­port of tra­di­tional agri­cul­ture on the profit of peas­ant as for­mal farm­ers. The pol­i­tics of agri­cul­tur­al­sup­port to be used for the study are men­tioned in the pre­vi­ous para­graph; these are within the tar­iff and tax pol­icy. The appli­ca­tion pre­sented here is a com­put­er­sim­u­la­tion which will help to mea­sure the impact over the many polit­i­cal options applied and deter­mine the bet­ter choice upgrad­ing and pro­tect­ing the peas­ants profit”.