Archive - May 8, 2023

  Cornell was involved with the community of Vicos, Peru in the ’50s and the ’60s.  Decades later, the Vicos community invited Cornell University to return and evaluate what happened with the  Cornell innovations after so many years.  In the sixties, Cornell University also trained Peace Corps Volunteers to work in Peru.  Here is the report: A half-century later, Cornell revisits a small Andean village By Bill Steele July 23, 2009 More than 50 years ago, a Cornell mission to a small village in the Andes introduced social changes that made a profound improvement in the life of the village. Today, echoes of that mission are still visible and may help the community again. From 1952 to 1966 Cornell had an active presence in Vicos (pronounced “vee-kos”), a peasant community in northern Peru, then with a population of around 2,000, mostly engaged in subsistence farming. Cornell experts taught them the agricultural . . .