The Transforming Territories Program is a set of research and advocacy initiatives that seek to generate knowledge for the promotion of inclusive economic growth in rural-urban territories in Latin America, with special emphasis on Chile, Colombia and Mexico. It is also proposed to use this knowledge to contribute to the design and implementation of policies and programs that improve the opportunities and well-being of women and men in the region. This initiative seeks to support policies and programs that generate greater opportunities and improve the well-being of approx. 900 thousand women and men in rural-urban territories, through interventions that improve the relationships between urbanization patterns, transformations in agrifood systems, and changes in agricultural and non-agricultural employment.

The objectives of the Transforming Territories Program are to support policy dialogue processes with national governments to improve the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public policies or important programs in each participating country; and to produce knowledge that contributes to the design and management of these policies, incorporating urbanization patterns, transformation of food systems, and dynamics of agricultural and non-agricultural employment in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In doing so, we seek to leverage Rimisp’s strategy on knowledge generation for public policy change and make crucial organizational adaptations in order to maximize Rimisp’s capacity to influence large-scale change.