Analysis of the competitive reality of forest chain in the department of Arauca

Abstract

This article describes the results of an analysis-oriented research named productive stakes of the department of Arauca, specifically the one named forest chain. Such stakes are the result of an exercise of territorial planning, embodied in the Regional Competitiveness Plan of the Department of Arauca, which purpose is to improve the productive system of the region and, directly, living conditions of its communities. The research was aimed at establishing whether there are objective conditions which endorse the commitment to forest production and whether the same may turn into a development pole in the territory. In order to achieve this goal, a multimode qualitative approach was used, through in-depth interviews applied to those able to understand, through a screening process, as relevant actors in the value chain. The analysis of collected information has found that there are no enough arguments to support assigning priority to this economic sector, absence of objective conditions which may consider the same, as an axis of regional development support.