Study site description: Secano Interior, Chile

Table of Contents

1. Responsible partner
2. General information
3. Bio-physical description
4. Socio-economic description
   1. Population structure
   2. Education level
   3. Source of income
5. Institutional and political setting
6. Relevant end-users / stakeholder groups
7. Past and on-going projects
8. References

Education level

The education level is also a relevant constraint for technology adoption, and the situation in the area shows a low schooling; almost 30% of the area is administrated by people without any education, and 11% has only elementary school, which in Chile correspond to 8 years (Table 7). If we add this fact to the advance age of the population in the area, promoting any development and conservation program requires generating a plan that do not implies considering practices that are not very different compared to what they are doing today.

Table 7: Area managed by producers at different education levels.