Conserve in-situ and sustainably use globally important agrobiodiversity through the preservation of traditional farming systems, integrated management of forests, land resources and maintenance of ecosystem services.
The potential of the Andean region
Peru recognized among the five most megadiverse countries in the world
Peru has in its regions the richest sources of biodiversity, tradition and culture
have provided landscapes and ecosystems of high biodiversity and endemism
including two of the world’s most important: potato and corn
Project's Major Achievements
under conservation agreements with 20 farming communities
use management practices to conserve agrobiodiversity
potato, quinoa, cañihua, maca, among others in the regions of Cusco, Puno, Apurímac and Huancavelica
Learn more about the world’s largest Agricultural Heritage site
The return of seeds
Muhu Kutichiy
In this documentary, you will discover the testimonies of Peruvian conservationists who worked together with the project for the recovery of agrobiodiversity products.
Ancestral knowledge for conservation
Peruvian farmers have achieved, through thousands of years of experimentation and accumulation of knowledge, a production and adaptation of agricultural species and varieties that constitute a very valuable genetic heritage for all humanity.
Andean agriculture is one of the best examples of how farmers’ traditional knowledge has allowed them to adapt to their environment for over 5,000 years.
These areas preserve much of the ancestral traditional agricultural technologies, which have allowed local communities to meet their food needs despite the strong influence of Western agriculture that is eroding many of their ancient traditions.
The pillars of agrobiodiversity conservation
This project promotes a landscape approach to conservation, which ensures not only that crop agrobiodiversity itself, but also that traditional landscape-wide systems, in which crops are managed by local people, are maintained and that threats affecting the landscape scale are addressed.
This is in accordance with the model of agrobiodiversity zones provided by Peruvian legislation, which correspond in general to the principles of GIAHS (Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems) and NIAHS (National Important Agricultural Heritage Systems).
Promote markets for agrobiodiversity crops and products.
In this way, the attractiveness of their maintenance by farmers is increased.
Strengthen farmers’ capacities to manage
and conserve agrobiodiversity in response to changing pressures, and restore landscapes that provide ecosystem services on which agrobiodiversity management systems depend.
Ensure an enabling environment of inter-institutional coordination, institutional capacities and public awareness to support the proposed agrobiodiversity conservation model.
Most of the participating farmers are almost exclusively indigenous, from the Quechua and Aymara ethnic groups.
Peru has the richest sources of biodiversity, tradition and culture in its regions.
Prioritized native crops and species
In 13 districts of 5 localities, most of which are part of watersheds, priority was given to crops and native species, organized in production systems and ancestral knowledge.
Hands That Cultivate
Knowledge and talent that leave a mark
In the community of Cachín, located in Cusco, they plant and harvest using ancestral knowledge, built on the biodiversity of the Andes over thousands of years.
In the Andes, knowledge and know-how are built, preserved and transmitted, which to this day allow us to cultivate food for Peruvian tables.
In the rural communities of Ccachín and Choquecancha, in Cusco, unique corn species are grown thanks to the climatic and geographic diversity of the Andes.
Learn about Peruvian agrobiodiversity
Meet Victor Rojas, who thanks to his ancestral knowledge, preserves different varieties of potatoes, heritage of our nation.
He is one of the #HandsThatCultivate in Apurímac. His work allows us to feed Peru
At the headwaters of the Chicha River micro-watershed, Percy Vargas and his community recover water to store it in a reservoir and then distribute it to his community.
This is a knowledge that the #HandsThatCultivate have been practicing in the high Andean zones of Peru for thousands of years.
Through reforestation and revegetation, Marisol achieves multiple benefits, such as protection from low temperatures, preserving her crops and caring for her cattle.
The application of agroforestry systems is a knowledge that the hands that have been cultivating for centuries and with which they conserve and rescue millenary foods of our agrobiodiversity.
Renata Flores in Atiquipa
Creating life in the middle of the desert
Catching water from the sky
From the sea to Los Andes in only 20 minutes
Do you know the Tara tree?
Ancestral knowledge that transcends in time
Marcelina’s letters
Community Agrofestive Calendar
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