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ASU: Global Resolve in Toluca, Mexico
San Antonio Buenavista (SABV) is a poor BoP (Base of the economic Pyramid) town of about 5000 individuals who make anywhere from $1-$5 per day located in Toluca Mexico. Town farmers have begun to sell off their farms to look for other work due to the lack of profitability in corn farming on a small scale. Preliminary research has indicate... read more
San Antonio Buenavista (SABV) is a poor BoP (Base of the economic Pyramid) town of about 5000 individuals who make anywhere from $1-$5 per day located in Toluca Mexico. Town farmers have begun to sell off their farms to look for other work due to the lack of profitability in corn farming on a small scale. Preliminary research has indicated that these poverty-stricken farmers, as well as other poor families in this community, seek ways out of poverty while also maintaining ownership over their small businesses.
The objective of this Study Abroad program is to design a sustainable economic system of family-run small businesses utilizing and leveraging the physical and knowledge assets of the town of San Antonio Buenavista to help alleviate poverty. Through joint courses run collaboratively between Tec de Monterrey University Toluca Mexico and ASU, several businesses have already been conceived and joint teams of students from both universities are developing them through a systems approach. Conceptually each business will be scalable/replicable and will support the other businesses, creating infrastructure within a self-sustaining system: Mexico’s first Sustainable Town.
*** This program has been canceled for summer 2012 *** Less
