%0 Journal Article %T Las pol¨ªticas de desarrollo rural en Am¨¦rica Latina. Un an¨¢lisis a la luz de la experiencia boliviana reciente %A Ver¨®nica Hendel %J Revista IDeAS : Interfaces em Desenvolvimento, Agricultura e Sociedade %D 2011 %I Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro %X During the last decade several Latin American countries, and mainly Bolivia, have begun to experiment deep political transitions that present a redefinition of the organizational parameters of their economy, their policies and their States, outlining a discussion about the ¡°development¡± concept that characterized rural development policies encouraged by the dominant countries during the past century. The aim of this article is to carry out a historical analysis of the bonds between development programmes and food production in Latin America, as an introduction to a deeper analysis of the Buen Vivir notion proposed by Evo Morales¡¯ Bolivian government. More specifically, we would like to relate the latter analysis to the rural development policies implemented in Latin America since the 1950¡¯s. %K rural development %K Bolivia %K Buen Vivir %U http://r1.ufrrj.br/cpda/ideas/revistas/v05/n01/IDeAS-v05_n01-Artigo_HENDEL.pdf