ALVARO CHAPARRO, Diplomat, Official. Rural Sociologist, Division of Human Resources, Institutions & Agrarian Reform, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rural Sociological Society; Founder & Member, Latin American Association for Rural Sociology.
Education
Faculty of Agriculture, National University, Medellin, Colombia, 1938-1943, Agr Engineer. United States Department of Agriculture, Graduate School Agr Extension Service 1944-1945, Certificate. Pennsylvania State University, 1951, Master of Science Rural Society, 1955, Doctor of Philosophy Rural Society.
Spoken languages: Spanish, English, French.
Career
Rural Sociologist, Division of Human Resources, Institutions & Agrarian Reform, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations since 1968. Director, Study on Agr Extension, Education & Research in Latin America, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/International Labour Organisation (Office)/OAS, Santiago & Washington, District of Columbia, 1964-1968. Rural Education Section(s), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1958-1964.
Professor of Sociology, University de El Valle, Cali, Colombia, 1956-1957. Rural Sociologist, Costa Rica, 1954-1956. Rural Development Adviser, National Federation of Coffee Growers, Colombia, 1952-1954.
Director, Agr Extension Service, Colombia, 1946-1948. Assistant Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Colombia, 1945-1946.
Membership
Rural Sociological Society. Founder & Member, Latin American Association for Rural Sociology.