• Develop a methodology allowing local institutions to use satellite imagery for monitoring, evaluation, and adaptive management of their agriculture and natural resources
  
• Develop a methodology allowing national institutions to provide data sets to local institutions in a format that they can use for their purposes

Searching for robust strategies through ex-ante assessment of agricultural projects in communities under different scenarios

• Provide farmers and extension agents with examples of decision-making processes, where farmers plan their long-term strategy facing uncertainty in market prices, climatic conditions, and other factors
  
• Develop a methodological framework to choose robust strategies, that is, those that produce relatively good results under a range of scenarios, without necessarily being the optimal strategy in any of them
  
• Contribute to an ongoing effort to help five villages of the municipality of Puerto Lopez in the elaboration of their community development plan
  
• Help farmers of the EL Turpial village and the UMATA to gauge the economic worth of planning for an irrigation project in the village, and to explore the best cultivation strategies to recuperate investments
  

GEOSOIL and "Arboles de decision": Decision support tools to make recommendations on land use and management practices in the Colombian Llanos, based on soil characteristics. Case study in Puerto López, Meta

• Develop a simple methodology to allow farmers, extension agents, and agricultural project promoters apply knowledge developed through agricultural experimentation to data from soil maps or soil samples, to issue recommendations for the sustainable use and progressive improvement of soil qualities
  
• Present an example of this methodology for the municipality of Puerto Lopez that can be repeated in other municipalities, or even for entire departments
  
• Provide decision makers in the municipality of Puerto Lopez, which is where the government plans on focusing many agricultural development projects, with a tool to prevent unsustainable use of soil resources
  

Electronic version of the Plan de desarrollo 2001-2004, "Por la reconciliación y unidad de Puerto López", available on CD-ROM

To comply with Colombian law 152/94, new municipal administrations must submit a Plan de Desarrollo Municipal (PDM) within 4 months of taking office. The elaboration of these plans is very often contracted out and has an insufficient participatory component. We are promoting the transformation of these bureaucratic exercises into participatory strategic planning opportunities. However, these are most profitable when the municipal administration takes ownership of them, and we are therefore developing a methodology that can be used by municipal administrations themselves. As a case study in Puerto Lopez, we offered to facilitate the process to allow the municipality to develop their plan while minimizing dependence towards outside help and maximizing popular participation.

Training on "creating local capacity for Ordenamiento Territorial" in Ecuador, the use of the participatory planning methodology and MapMaker software

Based on our experience on the Ordenamiento Territorial, some Ecuadorian institutions asked us to elaborate adapted training material and give our technical support through training courses. These aimed at orienting the processes of occupation and transformation of the provincial territory by allowing stakeholders to clearly identify their visions, possible actions, and partnerships, while considering the territory's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. They were also aimed at developing a local capacity to plan development, using principles of equity, sustainability, and competitiveness.