Workshop on land use changes, biofuels and rural development in the Plata Basin

Carolina Favre (Argentine M.S. student funded by the IAI) attended a workshop of social scientists from Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia collaborating in a project on land use and biofuels in the Río de la Plata Basin funded by the IAI and Canada’s International Development Research Center (IDRC). The workshop took place in Tandil, Argentina, on May 9-13, 2009.

Carolina presented a summary of progress in our agent-based model of changes in land use and structure of production systems in the Argentine Pampas. She also had an intense and productive exchange of ideas with workshop participants in preparation for her own thesis work on land use changes in the Argentine Chaco.

Group picture of workshop participants	Participants interviewed farmers from the Tandil region