I was the technical director for over ten years of the Evaluation and Policy Analysis Project, part of the technical cooperation between FAO and the Mexican Government. This has been a high impact project regarding policy evaluation, becoming a reference point in the analysis and evaluation of policies and programs in the Mexican rural sector.
The objective of the project I directed was to provide elements of analysis to policymakers of the Ministry of Agriculture (SAGARPA) in order to improve the efficiency and efficacy of the Ministry´s development programs and thereby increase their impact. The objective sought by SAGARPA´s programs is to increase the income of the rural producers in .