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Introduction
Milagros Romero currently works at the Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Nitlapan, Universidad Centroamericana (UCA).
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October 2014 - present
February 2011 - August 2013
Education
September 2013 - September 2014
February 2007 - October 2011
Publications
Publications (12)
This contribution presents the perspective on rural transformations to sustainability of the TRUEPATH action-research project in the agrarian frontier in Nicaragua. We start from a ‘territorial pathways’ framework, assembled from diverse theoretical building blocks and empirically grounded in experiences with local development interventions. This f...
This chapter reflects on a possible role for microfinance in the complex challenges posed by climate change, both in terms of adaptation and mitigation. The analysis is based on lessons from recent ‘green Microfinance Plus’ experiences of the Fondo de Desarrollo Local (FDL) and the institute Nitlapan-UCA (Universidad Centroamericana) in rural cattl...
This article reflects on a possible role for microfinance in light of the complex challenges posed by climate change, both in terms of adaptation and mitigation. The analysis is based on lessons from recent 'green Microfinance Plus' experiences of the Fondo de Desarrollo Local (FDL) and the institute Nitlapan in rural cattle and coffee regions in N...
En este cuaderno se presenta un análisis y reflexión sobre las microfinanzas plus y su vinculación con el enfoque de desarrollo territorial. En la segunda sección reflexionamos sobre la configuración del territorio de La Dalia a través del tiempo y su evolución, y así mismo, presentamos las rutas de desarrollo y cómo estas se diferencian en el terr...
En el año 2015, el instituto Nitlapan de la Universidad Centroamericana, el IOB de la Universidad de Amberes y ADA Luxemburgo pusimos en marcha una agenda de investigación sobre Microfinanzas Plus para entender las complejidades del territorio, las oportunidades de desarrollo y los desafíos de las Microfinanzas Plus en Nicaragua, y más concretament...
En el año 2015, el instituto Nitlapan de la Universidad Centroamericana, el IOB de la Universidad de Amberes y ADA Luxemburgo pusimos en marcha una agenda de investigación sobre Microfinanzas Plus para entender las complejidades del territorio, las oportunidades de desarrollo y los desafíos de las Microfinanzas Plus en Nicaragua, y más concretament...
The article describes the socio-environmental tensions of the conventional coffee production
model, the gap between theory and practice in the Microfinance Plus model, and the need for the model
to consider different development pathways. The article also analyses the political, social and economic
dynamics of the stakeholders in the coffee value c...
The historically dominant model of extensive cattle ranching in Nicaragua has led to a concentration of land in few hands and pushed small farmers towards the younger agricultural frontiers. It thereby contributes to social polarization and alarming levels of deforestation. This model is not sustainable in either social or environmental terms. As a...
En Nicaragua, el modelo histórico dominante de la ganadería extensiva produce concentración de la tierra en pocas manos y expulsión de pequeños productores hacia la nueva frontera agrícola, contribuyendo a una polarización social y deforestación alarmante. Este modelo no es sustentable en términos sociales ni ambientales. En consecuencia es impresc...
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Projects (3)
(1) to co-generate actionable knowledge for and to contribute to the transformation of unsustainable cattle-based development in agricultural frontiers (AF) in Latin America and elsewhere and
(2) to produce a better understanding of how such processes of knowledge cogeneration generate transformations to sustainability.
- Develop and implement a Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) together with local stakeholders to construct poverty profiles and poverty maps that serve as a basis for evidence-based policy making in Rio Blanco.
- Generate evidences about the technical, methodological and political characteristics of credit mechanisms and their limitations and opportunities to deal with women´s restrictions to consolidate their microenterprises.
