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Cristino Alberto Gómez Luciano

I work as educator in Loyola Politechnic Institute (IPL), Dominican Republic, where I coordinate the School of Agronomy at Technical Level. I also teach Strategic Planning and Project Evaluation to... read more I work as educator in Loyola Politechnic Institute (IPL), Dominican Republic, where I coordinate the School of Agronomy at Technical Level. I also teach Strategic Planning and Project Evaluation to undergraduate students. I was born in Loma de Cabrera, Dominican Republic, living in a small community called Fondo Grande. I studied Agronomy at Loyola Politechnical Institute (IPL, 2004) and Agronomic Engineering at EARTH University, Costa Rica (2008). Then I worked during a year as a supervisor of reforestation in Fondo Grande and in Merende, a sister community in Haiti. This period I had the opportunity to learn a lot from the people living in both sides of the border. I also participated actively as honorific technical advisor of CONFONDOGRANDE (Consejo para el Desarrollo de Fondo Grande), an organization founded in 2008 as an initiative of Luis B. Gómez L. which had inmediately become the greater social group in Fondo Grande, with the trend to advance to a regional scale. In addition, in 2007 we had created the Fondo Grande Ahead Youth Organization, a group which has permited an active participation of youth in the development process of our community. After one year in my country, with the purpose of better understanding the dynamics of communities, the livelihoods of people in rural communities and how they coexist with nature in sustainable development processes, I returned to Costa Rica to join the M. Sc. program in Environmental Socioeconomics in CATIE. I have completed this program in December 2011. My professional objective is to contribute to the human and sustainable development in rural communities of Latin America and the Caribbean, mainly in Dominican Republic and Haiti. The active role of local people in the rural development is essential for the sustainability of the processes. For the empowerment of people, an increasing level of knowledge and the development of leadership skills are key factors that contribute to a spiraling-up of success.

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