The Institute for Rural Development of South America (IPDRS) carries out an Annual Contest for Young People, with the purpose of increasing the quantity and quality of the production of knowledge on rural development of indigenous peasant base in South America.

In the last years the topics of the contest were: Food (Security and Food Sovereignty) and rural development (2012), Rural youth, situation and challenges (2013), Community family farming (2014), Extractivisms and Direct Monetary Transfers (2015), Climate Resilient Agriculture (2016), Sowing, harvesting and water use practices for rural development (2017), and finally Life Stories that survive violence and persecution in the countryside in South America (2018).

This annual contest aims to stimulate the production of knowledge, reflection, debates and proposals on various topics of rural development; contribute to the dissemination of diverse content to those traditionally disclosed and promote and expand the participation of young women and men, encouraging their contributions in the area.

The eighth version of the Contest in the year 2019, proposes as a theme to work Rural women: innovating strategies, transforming realities.

Within that framework, the Annual Contest for Young People is convened in the categories of papers and short videos of the year 2019, aimed at women and young men between 22 and 35 years of age, research students, activists, university teachers, public policy managers, state officials and development institutions, leaders and members of social organizations, that focus their activity in the field of rural development of indigenous peasant based in South American countries.

The deadline of submission is 20 December.

COMPETITION RULES

The proposal on rural women: innovating strategies, transforming realities, into a written and visual register, is to highlight the perspectives and experiences in which rural women in an organized way, innovating resources, strategies and knowledge, make their life projects viable, in a self-managed way , personally or collectively. In addition, it seeks to make visible theoretical, political and cultural perspectives that show the autonomous capacity of rural women in their own contexts and with respect to their territorial problems; and promote the organizational, vindictive, associative experiences, campaigns, mobilizations based on the autonomy and self-management of rural women in their territorial areas.

When participating in the Contest, the rural perspective and a positioning in favor of the subjects, women and men, peasants, indigenous and Afro-descendants must be considered as protagonists of their lives and proposals, without omitting their relationship and practices with allies (consumers, markets , international cooperation, institutions or instances of local governments) that directly support their initiatives and demands.

To read the call in Spanish click here

To read the call in Portuguese click here