ANNEX B
Contact Persons List for Field Activities and Focus Group Members Chaco Province Libertador General San Martín (city located 150 kilometers north of Resistencia)
Silvia Vargas, veterinarian and local deputy of the Secretary of Agriculture for rural programs, was the contact person. She led me on for the interview of two persons living 15–20 km away from San Martín: one a male day laborer (Nicasio), and the other a female (Isabel Navarro) married to a smallholding farmer (minifundia). In the same area there are indigenous communities (tobas) and the so-called banquineros (landless nonindigenous population living on the side of the roads). Both tobas and banquineros might well be included in the interviewees’ sample. Machagay (city located 140 km west of Resistencia)
There is a high density of smallholdings in the area. Mr. Cosme González, regional deputy of the Provincial Settlement Institute (Instituto de Colonización de la Provincia), was the contact person. Two interviews were conducted: one with a smallholder in process of retirement (Carlos), and the other with a 21-year-old landless microscale charcoal producer. Resistencia
Meeting with Mario Olivero, undersecretary of Rural Development (Chaco province). Olivero presented his office view on the socioeconomic classification of Chaco´s rural population. Mr. Olivero stated his willingness to provide operational support to the fieldwork. Accordingly, Javier Kiakowski (Rural Development officer) was designated as the local liaison in J. J. Castelli. Kiakowski will be in charge of coordinating our interview activities in the area as well as inviting community key person to the focus group. A vehicle will also be provided.
Chaco province Juan José Castelli
A focus group was held in the Communitarian Integrative Center (Centro de Integración Comunitaria [CIC]) of the city. Laura Fetter (Regional Coordinator of the Livestock Program of the Ministry of Production), José Luis Steman (Priest, Catholic Church), Avelino Milar (Chief of the Regional Educativa IV Chief), Daniel Pértile (Microregion Manager, El Impenetrable), Alejandro Moreno (President of the Asociación de Profesionales del Campo del Impenetrable Chaqueño [APCICh]), Luis Zago (veterinary surgeon, Ministry of Production), Julio Berg (journalist), Pedro Infeld (health care doctor, local hospital), Norma Blanco (social worker, coordinadora CIC, J. J. Castelli), and Marcelo Mijalchuk (Manager Cooperativa Agropecuaria de General Güemes) took part in the group. 94