The authors are Dr. Juan Francisco Rosas, Professor of Econometrics at the School of Management and Social Sciences; Ignacio Arboleya, Vice President of the Management Committee of the Uruguayan Cooperative Center; Dr. Miguel Alberto Carriquiry, of the Department of Economics at Iowa State University; Valentín Picasso, a faculty member at the Faculty of Agronomy and the Interdisciplinary Center for Climate Change and Variability Response at the University of the Republic; Hugo Licandro, Head of Programme Rural Area Programme at the Uruguayan Cooperative Center; and Juan Millán, from the Rural Area of the Uruguayan Cooperative Center.