Current Projects

"Projeto Arizona" in Ceará, Northeast Brazil

The University of Arizona and the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) have had a close collaborative relationship since the mid-1960s. In 1996, researchers from BARA initiated an interdisciplinary research program funded by NOAA's Human Dimensions Program. A research partnership was established at the University between BARA, the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and Latin American Studies and in Brazil with the Department of Agricultural Economics at UFC...more

Latin American Cooperatives Study

In the summer of 2005, BARA researchers initiated the Latin American Coops Project funded by USAID under a subcontract to ACDI/VOCA, a Washington-based non-profit development firm. This five-year project seeks to document the impacts of cooperative organizational models on members, local communities, and local economies in four countries of Latin America-Brazil, Paraguay, Colombia, and Bolivia...more

Bangladesh Debt/Migration Study

In June 1998 BARA initiated A Qualitative Study of the Impacts of CARE's Road Improvements on Household Livelihood Security in Bangladesh. This study is an ethnographic supplement to a large-scale socioeconomic impact assessment survey that was designed and guided by an agricultural economist from U of A...more

Niger Direct

Niger Direct is a community-led initiative based at the University of Arizona in Tucson that provides emergecny aid directly to communities in Niger hit hard by the food crisis. The team is composed of individuals with experience in poverty alleviation in West Africa, including experts in food and livelihood security, public health and community development...more

BARA and USAID Resourcement Managment Portal Partnership

BARA works in partnerships with USAID on developing a web portal that serves as a global, open-access communications exchange between organizations, communities, universities, consortia and global partners working on various aspects of international development such as natural resource, climate change, poverty reduction and sustainable agriculture. The BARA portal team consists of Tim Finan, John Magistro, Jon Dale and Stanzin Tonyot...more

Bahamas Project

The purpose of this study is to determine why people in the Exumas Islands and Cays, located in the central Bahamas, have responded differentially to the proposed establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) near their settlements...more

E-Development

BARA's new e-development initiative explores how various web-assisted models of development models may be used to enhance livelihoods of the impoverished and marginalized populations of the world...more

Past Projects

Projecto Maplan

BARA faculty with colleagues from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Latin American Studies initiated a NOAA-funded project in Ceará to examine how policy-makers and society in general had derived benefits from a heavy investment in a state-based climate forecasting capacity...more

Haiti Food Security Project

Farmer-to-Farmer Project

Since 1986 BARA has been one of the principal implementors of the Farmer-to-Farmer Program. Funded by the US Department of Agriculture Food for Peace Monies, the program recruits highly experienced, short-term volunteer technical consultants in response to agricultural-related scopes of work which are formulated by counterparts in developing countries...more

Six Cities in Africa Project

A Study of Welfare Reform in Tucson Arizona
In 1998, BARA initiated A Study of Welfare Reform in Tucson Arizona through a small grant from the University of Arizona's University-Community Partnership Program, funded by the Kellogg Foundation. The projects seeks to understand the experiences, coping strategies and perspectives of women transitioning off welfare to work...more