Jose Undurraga

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José Undurraga is a PhD candidate at the Chair of Silviculture at Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany. He holds a M.Sc. Life Sciences, Applied Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, with a major in Value Chains and Rural Development from Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland, and a Bachelor in Agricultural Engineer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC).

Research interest

Rural development, small-scale agriculture, natural resource management, rural extension systems

Carrier brief

2014-2018: Consultant on Rural Development projects at UNIQUE forest and land use (Germany), HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation (Myanmar), Latin American Centre for Rural Development (RIMISP) and Agraria Professional Consultancy (Chile). 2012-2014: Extension agent and leader of the Local Development Program (PRODESAL) at the National Institute of Agricultural Development (INDAP) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Chile. 2009-2010: Technical agronomist at the private agricultural sector in Chile.

Project

Piloting approaches to rural advisory services in support of scaling of the Agroforestry Concessions scheme in Peru (PARA)