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02: 18 April, 2010
01. E-course : Diploma in
Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev)
SECTION A : DEVELOPMENT
PROBLEMS.
Study value :
04 points out of 18.
Indicative
study time: 112 hours out of 504.
Study points
are awarded only after the consolidated exam for Section A : Development
Problems has been passed.
First block : Poverty and quality of life.
Study value :
02 points out of 18.
Indicative
study time: 57 hours out of 504.
Study points are
awarded only after the consolidated exam for Section A : Development
Problems has been passed.
First block : Poverty and quality of life.
First Block : Section 1.
Analysis of the causes of poverty. [26.50 hours]
First Block
: Section 2. Services needed for a good quality of
life.
First Block : Exam. [ 4 hours each attempt]
Block 1 of Section
1. Analysis of the causes of poverty. [26.50 hours]
Part 1 :
Introduction to the causes of poverty.[06.50
hours]
02. Some factors linked with
poverty.
04. Financial leakage : food
and water industries.
05. Financial leakage :
energy.
06. Financial leakage : means
of communication.
07. Financial leakage : health
and education.
08. Financial leakage : theft
of resources.
09. Financial leakage :
corruption.
Part 1 :
Introduction to the causes of poverty.[06.50
hours]
04. Financial leakage : food and
water industries. ( At least 30 minutes).
Take a map of the region where you were born and a
define a rural area with a population of about 50.000 inhabitants on it.
Throughout this course the area will be called «your project
area » or «your chosen area ». The area should practical and
homogeneous. It may include a larger village and surrounding territories and
hamlets. You should know the area and its inhabitants well. Although the
principals of integrated development apply equally well to urban areas as to
rural areas, the choice of rural areas is preferred. One of the main objectives
of integrated development projects is to halt migration towards urban slums in
large cities.
Suppose a local economy could be formed in your chosen area.
Look at the following slide :
04. Financial leakage :
food and water industries.
1. Food dependence.
Note the following aspects :
1. Research.
Which foods are grown in your chosen
area ?
Who consume them ?
Which foods are imported into the
area ?
Where are they imported from?
Which form do they have when they are
imported?
2. Imposed production standards.
2. Research.
Note which production standards are
applicable to the foods produced in your project area.
Consider, for example :
Standards applicable to raising animals.
Standards applicable to storage and sale of milk products.
Standards for the slaughter of animals and storage and sale of meat.
Standards for the use of water (such as irrigation), of land (such as
fertilisers), of the air (such as CO2 and methane emissions and smoke).
3. Food conservation.
3. Research.
Make a note of :
Systems for food conservation used in your project area.
Systems for the conservation of foods
imported into your chosen area.
Other food conservation systems known to
you.
4. Freezing and packaging of foods.
4. Research.
Take note of some technical aspects (including necessary equipment, energy, and transport facilities)
related to :
The process of freezing foods ;
Processes for packaging foods.
5. Monoculture and imported foods.
5. Opinion.
On the human rights aspects of monocultures,
see Suárez S., Emanueli M, Monocultures and
human rights, Food First
Information and Action Network (FIAN),
For your chosen area make a note
of :
The percentage of locally produced foods
consumed locally.
The percentage of foods imported into your chosen area which are
consumed there.
Why is it necessary to import foods into
the project area?
What is a monoculture ?
Are there any monocultures in the
project area? If so, for which products ?
6. Drinking water dependence.
6. Research.
Make a note of :
Does the project area have clean
drinking water?
Who is the water for ?
How is the clean drinking water
distributed ?
Who controls the distribution of the
drinking water?
How much does a litre of drinking water cost ?
◄ First block :
Poverty and quality of life.
◄ Index : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip.Int.Dev)
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