The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cecilia Lopez Montano, took possession this Friday diego bautista as president of the Rural Development Agency (ADR).
(See: Agriculture and energy transition, keys to the future of Latin America).
Improve the income and quality of life of the country’s rural populations, especially the poorest, are part of the challenges that this industrial engineer, specialist in Project Evaluation from the University of Los Andes and Master in Public and Social Policies from Pompeu Fabra, will have.
“The effort that we will make from the Government to improve access and distribution of land with the Agrarian Reform will be historic and enormous. However, this will not be enough with the land. We must complement this initiative with projects and programs that generate income to improve the living conditions of rural residents, that ensure the availability of food for Colombians and that improve the competitiveness of all rural producers.Baptist stressed.
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The new president of the ADR has extensive experience in the public sector. He has been a director, adviser and consultant in National Planning, Incoder and Presidency of the Republic. And coordinated the 15-year prospective document Vision Colombia 2019.
He has also been in charge of management projects and public policies in international and cooperation organizations, such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and USAID. He also coordinated territorial development and decentralization reform projects.
Bautista indicated that under his administration “The Rural Development Agency will lead a transparent process of conception and execution of these productive and life bets in each territory, with the participation, inclusion and concurrence of all the rural actors present in each region“.
(See: Government bets on agriculture with increased production).
It should be noted that he was also an advisor to the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace during the negotiation process that led to the peace agreement with the extinct FARC guerrilla. He coordinated the Territorial Peace team in that office and participated in the design of the PDETs model (Development Plans with Territorial Focus).
In addition, he founded the Unlikely Dialogues Platform, organization that promotes and accompanies processes of understanding and exploration of consensus among leaders with diverse and opposing interests.
(See: They establish lines of work complementary to the agrarian reform).
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